Octavius 7.1

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

Summary: The Roman ancestors had good reason for their religious rites.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:10

Nec tamen temere (ausim enim interim et ipse concedere et sic melius errare) maiores nostri aut obseruandis auguriis aut extis consulendis aut instituendis sacris aut delubris dedicandis operam nauauerunt.

English · Claude translation

"Nor was it rashly (for I would venture for the moment to concede this myself, and so err the better) that our ancestors gave their effort to observing auguries, consulting entrails, instituting sacred rites, or dedicating shrines.

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Source: CSEL 2:10 · 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.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/7/1/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/7/1/).

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