Octavius 25.4

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

Summary: Rome grew by conquest, plunder, and crime.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:35–36

iam finitimos agro pellere, ciuitates proximas euertere cum templis et altaribus, captos cogere, damnis alienis et suis sceleribus adolescere cum Romulo regibus ceteris et posteris ducibus disciplina communis est.

English · Claude translation

Then to drive neighbours from their land, to overthrow nearby cities with their temples and altars, to force captives into submission, to grow by others' losses and their own crimes: this is the common practice of Romulus, of the other kings, and of the generals after them.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:35–36 · 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. 25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/25/4/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/25/4/).

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