Octavius 18.2

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

Summary: God gave the desire for children and the mother's milk.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:23

quid cupido generandi? nonne a Deo data est, et ut ubera partu maturescente lactescant et ut tener fetus ubertate lactei roris adolescat?

English · Claude translation

What of the desire to beget? Is it not given by God, both that the breasts should fill with milk as the birth ripens, and that the tender offspring should grow by the abundance of the milky dew?

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:23 · 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. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/18/2/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/18/2/).

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