Octavius 21.5

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

Summary: Saturn fled to Italy and taught the natives the arts.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:30

is itaque Saturnus Creta profugus Italiam metu filii saeuientis accesserat, et Iani susceptus hospitio rudes illos homines et agrestes multa docuit ut Graeculus et politus, litteras inprimere, nummos signare, instrumenta conficere.

English · Claude translation

This Saturn, then, a fugitive from Crete, had come to Italy for fear of his raging son, and, received by Janus as a guest, as a clever and polished little Greek he taught those rude and rustic men many things: to print letters, to stamp coins, to make tools.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:30 · 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. 21.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/21/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 21.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/21/5/).

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