Octavius 30.2

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

Summary: Pagans expose infants and procure abortions.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:43

uos enim uideo procreatos filios nunc feris et auibus exponere, nunc adstrangulatos misero mortis genere elidere: sunt quae in ipsis uisceribus medicaminibus epotis originem futuri hominis extinguant et parricidium faciant, antequam pariant.

English · Claude translation

For I see you exposing your begotten sons now to wild beasts and birds, now strangling and crushing them by a wretched kind of death; there are women who, by drinking drugs, extinguish in their very wombs the beginning of the future human being and commit parricide before they give birth.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:43 · 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.
Topics: Ethics

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/30/2/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/30/2/).

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