Note 2021 — Chapter XX · OTHER CHRISTIAN DISCUSSION OF MAGIC BEFORE AUGUSTINE
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Thus Minucius Felix says, Octavius, cap. 26, “Magi ... quidquid miraculi ludunt ... praestigias edunt,” while Tertullian, Apology, cap. 23, writes, “Porro si et magi phantasmata edunt ... si multa miracula circulatoriis praestigiis ludunt.”