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Octavius 12.3

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

Summary: Sickness should teach Christians their mortality.

Latin text · CSEL 2:16

tu, qui inmortalitatem postumam somnias, cum periculo quateris, cum febribus ureris, cum dolore laceraris, nondum condicionem tuam sentis? nondum adgnoscis fragilitatem? inuitus miser infirmitatis argueris nec fateris.

English · Claude translation

You who dream of immortality after death, when you are shaken by danger, burned with fever, torn with pain, do you not yet perceive your condition? Do you not yet recognize your frailty? Wretch, you are convicted of weakness against your will, and do not confess it.

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Source
CSEL 2:16 · 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: "n" for "u".): tn, qui → tu, qui.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/12/3/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/12/3/).

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