To Diognetus 5.4

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

Summary: Living everywhere, they show a remarkable citizenship.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:358

κατοικοῦντες δὲ πόλεις ἑλληνίδας τε καὶ βαρβάρους, ὡς ἕκαστος ἐκληρώθη, καὶ τοῖς ἐγχωρίοις ἔθεσιν ἀκολουθοῦντες ἔν τε ἐσθῆτι καὶ διαίτῃ καὶ τῷ λοιπῷ βίῳ θαυμαστὴν καὶ ὁμολογουμένως παράδοξον ἐνδείκνυνται τὴν κατάστασιν τῆς ἑαυτῶν πολιτείας.

English · Claude translation

But while they live in Greek and barbarian cities, as each one's lot was cast, and follow the local customs in clothing and food and the rest of life, they display the remarkable and admittedly paradoxical character of their own citizenship.

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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.

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Diogn. 5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/4/).

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Diogn. 5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/5/4/).

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