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Octavius 25.3

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

Summary: Romulus's Romans seized the Sabine women and fought their own in-laws.

Latin text · CSEL 2:35

mox alienas uirgines iam desponsatas, iam destinatas et nonnullas de matrimonio mulierculas sine more rapuit, uiolauit, inlusit, et cum earum parentibus, id est cum soceris suis bellum miscuit, propinquum sanguinem fudit. quid inreligiosius, quid audacius, quid ipsa sceleris confidentia turpius?

English · Claude translation

Soon he carried off, violated, and mocked other men's maidens, some already betrothed, some promised, and some young wives out of their marriages, against all custom; and he stirred up war with their parents, that is, with his own fathers-in-law, and shed kindred blood. What is more irreligious, more audacious, more shameful than this very confidence in crime?

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Source
CSEL 2:35 · 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. 25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/25/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/25/3/).

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