Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 30.5

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

Summary: Pagan practices include blood oaths and drinking human blood.

Latin text · CSEL 2:44

ipsam credo docuisse sanguinis foedere coniurare Catilinam, et Bellonam sacrum suum haustu humani cruoris imbuere, et comitialem morbum hominis sanguine, id est morbo graviore sanare.

English · Claude translation

I believe it was he who taught Catiline to conspire by a covenant of blood, and Bellona to steep her rites with a draught of human gore, and men to cure epilepsy with human blood, that is, with a worse disease.

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Source
CSEL 2:44 · 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: "n" for "u".): docnisse → docuisse.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 30.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/30/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 30.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/30/5/).

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