Octavius 28.8

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

Summary: Pagans accept Egyptian animal worship.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:42

nonne et Apim bouem cum Aegyptiis adoratis et pascitis? nec eorum sacra damnatis instituta serpentibus, crocodillis, beluis ceteris et auibus et piscibus, quorum aliquem deum si quis occiderit, etiam capite punitur.

English · Claude translation

Do you not, with the Egyptians, worship and feed the bull Apis? And you do not condemn their rites established for serpents, crocodiles, other beasts, and birds and fish; if anyone kills one of these gods, he is even punished with death.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:42 · 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. 28.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/8/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/8/).

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