Octavius 23.2

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

Summary: Plato rightly banished Homer from his ideal city.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:32–33

et Plato ideo praeclare Homerum illum inclytum laudatum et coronatum de ciuitate, quam in sermone instituebat, eiecit.

English · Claude translation

And so Plato did well to expel from the city he was founding in his dialogue that famous Homer, praised and crowned.

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Source

CSEL 2:32–33 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Plato, Resp. 3.398a (Plato (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Plato, Resp. 3.398a.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/23/2/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/23/2/).

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