Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 23.6

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

Summary: Poets say Vulcan forged Jupiter's thunderbolt, though lightning is older than Jupiter.

Latin text · CSEL 2:33

illic Vulcanus Iouis fulmen cum Aeneae armis in incude fabricatur, cum caelum et fulmina et fulgura longe ante fuerint, quam Iuppiter in Creta nasceretur, et flammas ueri fulminis nec Cyclops potuerit imitari nec ipse Iuppiter non uereri.

English · Claude translation

There Vulcan forges Jupiter's thunderbolt on the anvil together with the arms of Aeneas, though the sky and thunderbolts and lightnings existed long before Jupiter was born in Crete, and neither could the Cyclops imitate the flames of the true thunderbolt nor Jupiter himself fail to fear them.

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Source
CSEL 2:33 · 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
  • Virgil, Aen. 8.424–453 (Virgil) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The arms of Aeneas are from Virgil, Aen. 8.424–453.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 23.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/23/6/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 23.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/23/6/).

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