Octavius 3.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Latin text · CSEL 2:4–5

Tunc Octauius ait: Non boni uiri est, Marce frater, hominem domi forisque lateri tuo inhaerentem sic in hac inperitiae uulgaris caecitate deserere, ut tam luculento die in lapides eum patiaris inpingere, effigiatos sane et unctos et coronatos, cum scias huius erroris non minorem ad te quam ad ipsum infamiam redundare.

English · Claude translation

Then Octavius said: "It is not the part of a good man, brother Marcus, to abandon a man who clings to your side at home and abroad to this blindness of vulgar ignorance, so that on so bright a day you let him stumble against stones, carved, to be sure, and anointed and garlanded, when you know that the disgrace of this error redounds on you no less than on him."

About this passage

Source

CSEL 2:4–5 · 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

Translation notes

Marcus is the narrator, Marcus Minucius Felix.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "m" for "in".): sic m hac → sic in hac.

Cite this passage

Minucius Felix, Oct. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/3/1/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/3/1/).