Octavius 35.1

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

Summary: Pagan poets and writers too speak of fiery punishment after death.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:50

Et tamen admonentur homines doctissimorum libris et carminibus poetarum illius ignei fluminis et de Stygia palude saepius ambientis ardoris, quae cruciatibus aeternis praeparata et daemonum indiciis et de oraculis profetarum cognita tradiderunt.

English · Claude translation

"And yet men are warned by the books of the most learned and the songs of the poets about that fiery river and the burning that flows around many times from the Stygian marsh, which, prepared for eternal torments and known through the disclosures of demons and the oracles of the prophets, they have handed down.

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Source: CSEL 2:50 · 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: Eschatology

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/1/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/1/).

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