The Octavius of Minucius Felix — Chapter 19

1

Homer, Odyss., xviii. 136, 137.

2

Virgil, Æneid, vi. 724.

3

Some read, “For these things are true.”

4

Virgil, Georgics, iv. 221; Æneid, i. 743.

5

Otherwise, “Speusippus.”

6

The ms. here inserts, “Aristoteles of Pontus varies, at one time attributing the supremacy to the world, at another to the divine mind.” Some think that this is an interpolation, others transfer the words to Theophrastus below.

7

Otherwise, “Aristo the Chian.”

8

[See note on Plato, chap. xxvi.]

Chapter 19

Chapter XIX.—Argument: Moreover, the Poets Have Called Him the Parent of Gods and Men, the Creator of All Things, and Their Mind and Spirit. And, Besides, Even the More Excellent Philosophers Have Come Almost to the Same Conclusion as the Christians About the Unity of God.

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