Octavius 17.1

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

Summary: Octavius agrees that people should know themselves and ask where they come from.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:21

Nec recuso, quod Caecilius adserere inter praecipua conisus est, hominem nosse se et circumspicere debere, quid sit, unde sit, quare sit: utrum elementis concretus an concinnatus atomis, an potius a Deo factus, formatus, animatus.

English · Claude translation

"Nor do I reject what Caecilius strove to assert among his chief points, that a man ought to know himself and look around to see what he is, whence he is, why he is: whether he is compounded of elements or put together from atoms, or rather made, formed, and given life by God.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:21 · 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. 17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/17/1/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/17/1/).

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