Octavius, Cum integris omnium Notis ac Commentariis, novâque Recensione Jacobi Ouzelii. Cujus et accedunt Animadversiones. Accedit praeterea liber Julii Firmici Materni V.C. De errore profanarum religionum

First edition. The text of Minucius, Octavius, was first published in 1560, but not in its definitive form given here by Jacques Oisel. Numerous quotations and remarks in Greek. A large title vignette signed Dalen. Red and black title page.

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Felix Minutius (second half of the 2nd century AD) is one of the first, if not the first of the Latin Christian apologists. He is exclusively known as the author of the present text Octavius, an apology for Christianity in the form of a dialogue between a pagan and a Christian (recalling Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes), in a vigorous and elegant style. The edition adjoins several texts to the Octavius: the Prolegomena of François Balduin, the Remarks of Jean A Waver, the Commentaries of Geverhart Elmenhorst, those of Desiderius Heraldus, the Observations of Nicolas Rigault and the Animadversiones of the editor himself, Jacques Oisel. Richly and diversely annotated edition on the history of the first Christians under the Roman empire, and on the historians relating what concerns the first Christians.



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