Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 22.6

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

Summary: Jupiter appears in many contradictory forms under different titles.

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

Latin text · CSEL 2:32

quid ipse Iuppiter uester? modo inberbis statuitur, modo barbatus locatur; et cum Hammon dicitur, habet cornua, et cum Capitolinus, tunc gerit fulmina, et cum Latiaris, cruore perfunditur, et cum Feretrius, t non auditur. et ne longius multos Ioues obeam, tot sunt Iouis monstra quot nomina.

English · Claude translation

What of your Jupiter himself? Now he is set up beardless, now placed with a beard; when he is called Hammon he has horns; when Capitoline, then he carries thunderbolts; when Latiaris, he is drenched with blood; when Feretrius, he is not heard. And not to go further round many Jupiters, there are as many monstrosities of Jupiter as there are names.

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Source
CSEL 2:32 · 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

  • "When Feretrius, he is not heard": the "t" before "non auditur" is probably the editor's crux (†); the phrase is corrupt and its sense uncertain.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/22/6/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/22/6/).

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