Minucius Felix

Latin-language writer

b. 2nd century · d. c. 260

Marcus Minucius Felix was a Roman legal practitioner and one of the earliest Latin apologists for Christianity.

Works

Octavius

Places

Cirta birth

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

Patrology 1 claim — Octavius or Apologeticum?

Glosses

Octavius or Apologeticum? Two Latin apologies from the same generation share whole passages, and nobody can settle which one borrowed. Tertullian's Apologeticum dates itself to 197. The Octavius of Minucius Felix dates itself not at all, and…