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Octavius 19.1

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

Summary: The poets too speak of one father of gods and men.

Latin text · CSEL 2:25

Audio poetas quoque unum patrem diuum atque hominum praedicantes, et talem esse mortalium mentem qualem parens omnium diem induxerit. quid Mantuanus Maro?

English · Claude translation

"I hear the poets also proclaiming one father of gods and men, and that the mind of mortals is such as the parent of all has brought on the day. What of Maro of Mantua?

About this passage

Source
CSEL 2:25 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Homer, Od. 18.136–137 (Homer, Odyssey) · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • "Father of gods and men" is the Homeric and Ennian formula; the second phrase echoes Homer, Od. 18.136–137. Maro is Virgil.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/1/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/1/).

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