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          Minucius Felix was a Roman advocate, rhetorician, and Christian apologist....

          The idea that fire shall eventually consume the whole world appears frequently in the corpus of surviving Greek and Roman texts.1 However, in most of these.

          Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Minucius Felix, Marcus


          Minucius Felix, Marcus, one of the earliest and most pleasing of the Latin Christian apologists.

          His personal history can only be gathered from his own book. The earliest writer to mention him by name is Lactantius (Institut. v. 1), who describes him as a lawyer, "non ignobilis inter causidicos loci," but Lactantius may be merely drawing a natural inference from the introduction to the book itself, where Minucius tells how he had taken advantage of the court holidays to leave Rome for Ostia, "ad vindimeam feriae judiciariam curam relaxaverant." St.

          Jerome three times mentions Minucius (Ep. 48 ad Pammach. vol. i.

          Marcus Minucius Felix (born, Africa?—died c.

        1. Marcus Minucius Felix (born, Africa?—died c.
        2. Minucius Felix, a distinguished advocate at Rome, wrote a dialogue named Octavius, the subject of which is a discussion between a Christian and a heathen.
        3. Minucius Felix was a Roman advocate, rhetorician, and Christian apologist.
        4. This exposure to abstract arguments as part of a rhetorical education raises the issue of the role of technical philosophy in the formation of Latin apologetic.
        5. Encountering Octavius: Reading Minucius Felix within the Stage Model of Conversion.

          6. p. 221; Ep. 70 ad Magnum, vol. i. p.

          This exposure to abstract arguments as part of a rhetorical education raises the issue of the role of technical philosophy in the formation of Latin apologetic.

          427; de Vir. Illust. c. 58, vol. ii. p. 883), and describes him as "insignis causidicus Romani fori"; but it seems clear that Jerome drew this description from Lactantius, whom he quotes. It has been attempted to deduc