Excerpt from Pagan and Puritan: The "Octavius" Of Minucius
The "Octavius," the only known work of Marcus Minucius Felix, contains two speeches on religion, one from the Pagan, and the other from the Christian point of view. Short as it is, this almost classical dialogue holds an important place in literature as the earliest extant defence of Christianity by a Latin writer; that is, if, as there is reason to believe, Minucius is prior to Tertullian. But, whether prior to Tertullian or not, he was highly esteemed in his own time, and by subsequent writers, one of whom, Cyprian, published a treatise on "Idols," which is so absolutely plagiarized from the "Octavius" that the text of Cyprian occasionally serves to elucidate that of Minucius.
Minucius, however, was unknown during a great part of the middle ages.
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