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Octavius 26.2

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

Summary: Roman generals lost battles, supposedly for ignoring the sacred chickens.

Latin text · CSEL 2:37

Clodius scilicet et Flaminius et Iunius ideo exercitus perdiderunt, quod pullorum solistimum tripudium exspectandum non putauerunt. quid Regulus?

English · Claude translation

Clodius, of course, and Flaminius and Junius lost their armies because they did not think they should wait for the favourable omen of the chickens' feeding. What of Regulus?

About this passage

Source
CSEL 2:37 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR: name misread (Junius, as in 7.4).): et unus ideo → et Iunius ideo.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/2/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/2/).

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