proconsul, and governor of Judea in the first century, was brother to Pallas the freedman of the emperor Claudius. He arrived in Judas about the year 53, when he conceived a violent passion for Drusilla the daughter of Agrippa and wife of Azizus, and married her. For this reason St Paul, on his speaking before him, discourse of charity and the judgment to come with such energy, that Felix trembled. Some time after, Nero recalled him on account of his ill conduct, and sent Portius Festus to succeed him.

(Minutius), a father of the primitive church, who flourished about the beginning of the third century. He was an African by birth, and a lawyer by profession; and has written a very elegant dialogue in defense of the Christian religion, intitled Octavius, from the name of the principal speaker. This work was long attributed to Arnobius; but was ascribed to the genuine author by Balduinus, a celebrated lawyer, in his edition of 1560 printed at Heidelberg. The best edition of it is that at Cambridge, in 1712, by Dr. Davis.