To Diognetus 5.2

Anonymous · To Diognetus · ca. 150–200 (disputed) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: They have no cities, language, or dress of their own.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:358

οὔτε γάρ που πόλεις ἰδίας κατοικοῦσιν οὔτε διαλέκτῳ τινὶ παρηλλαγμένῃ χρῶνται οὔτε βίον παράσημον ἀσκοῦσιν.

For they do not live in cities of their own anywhere, nor use some peculiar dialect, nor practice a conspicuous way of life.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:358 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 350–379 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.

Diogn. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/2/).

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Diogn. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/2/).