Octavius 5.11

Minucius Felix · Octavius · ca. 197–250 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: In peacetime the wicked often prosper.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:8

in pace etiam non tantum aequatur nequitia melioribus, sed et colitur, ut in pluribus nescias, utrum sit eorum detestanda prauitas an optanda felicitas.

English · Claude translation

In peace too wickedness is not only put on a level with the better sort but even honoured, so that in many cases you do not know whether their depravity should be detested or their prosperity desired.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:8 · Karl Halm, ed., M. Minucii Felicis Octavius; Iulii Firmici Materni Liber de errore profanarum religionum, CSEL 2 (Vienna: Gerold, 1867), 1–56 · Latin text: K. Halm (CSEL 2, 1867), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in CSEL 2. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Latin text of CSEL 2; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Divided there by chapter only.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "m" for "in".): m pace etiam → in pace etiam.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 5.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/5/11/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 5.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/5/11/).

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