Octavius 19.12

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

Summary: Diogenes of Babylon interprets the myths as describing nature, not gods.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:27

Babylonio etiam Diogeni disciplina est exponendi et disserendi, Iouis partum et ortum Mineruae et hoc genus cetera rerum uocabula esse, non deorum.

English · Claude translation

Diogenes of Babylon also has a method of expounding and discussing according to which the birth of Jupiter, the origin of Minerva, and other things of this kind are names of natural things, not of gods.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:27 · 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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "l" for "I".): louis partum → Iouis partum.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/12/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/12/).

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