Octavius 26.5

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

Summary: Famous seers could not foresee their own fates.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:37–38

quae uero et quanta de oraculis prosequar? post mortem Amphiaraus uentura respondit, qui proditum iri se ob monile ab uxore nesciuit. Tiresias caecus futura uidebat, qui praesentia non uidebat.

English · Claude translation

What, and how many, things shall I recount about the oracles? Amphiaraus gave answers about the future after his death, who did not know that he would be betrayed by his wife for a necklace. Tiresias, blind, saw the future, who did not see the present.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:37–38 · 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. 26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/5/).

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