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Octavius 21.8

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

Summary: Jupiter lived, reigned, and died in Crete, where his tomb is still shown.

Latin text · CSEL 2:30

eius filius Iuppiter Cretae excluso parente regnauit, illic obiit, illic filios habuit: adhuc antrum Iouis uisitur et sepulcrum eius ostenditur, et ipsis sacris suis humanitatis arguitur.

English · Claude translation

His son Jupiter reigned in Crete after shutting out his father; there he died, there he had sons. To this day the cave of Jupiter is visited and his tomb is shown, and he is convicted of humanity by his very rites.

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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. 21.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/21/8/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 21.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/21/8/).

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