Octavius 22.3

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

Summary: Jupiter's rites recall his being hidden as a baby from his devouring father.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:31

nutrix capella est et auido patri subtrahitur infans, ne uoretur, et Corybantum cymbalis, ne pater audiat uagitus, tinnitus eliditur.

English · Claude translation

A she-goat is his nurse, and the infant is stolen from his greedy father so as not to be devoured, and the clash of the Corybants' cymbals is beaten out so that the father may not hear his wailing.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:31 · 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. 22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/22/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/22/3/).

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