Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 19.7

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

Summary: Xenophanes, Antisthenes, and Speusippus also pointed to one God.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Latin text · CSEL 2:26

Xenophanen notum est omne infinitum cum mente deum tradere, et Antisthenen populares deos multos, sed naturalem unum praecipuum, Speusippum uim [natn.ralem] animalem, qua omnia regantur, Deum nosse.

English · Claude translation

It is well known that Xenophanes teaches that God is the whole infinite with mind; and Antisthenes, that the gods of the people are many but the natural one is chief; and Speusippus, that God is a living force by which all things are governed.

About this passage

Source
CSEL 2:26 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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

Translation notes

  • The editor deletes "naturalem" (garbled in the digital text); it is not translated.

Cite this passage

Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/7/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/7/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage