Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.11.5 (88.5)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Similitudes · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Made young again, he walks joyfully with them.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:246

κἀγὼ ὡσεὶ νεώτερος ἐγεγόνειν καὶ ἠρξάμην καὶ αὐτὸς παίζειν μετʼ αὐτῶν· αἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐχόρευον, αἱ δὲ ὠρχοῦντο, αἱ δὲ ᾖδον· ἐγὼ δὲ σιγὴν ἔχων μετʼ αὐτῶν κύκλῳ τοῦ πύργου περιεπάτουν καὶ ἱλαρὸς ἤμην μετʼ αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

And I had become as it were younger, and I too began to play with them; for some danced, some moved in rhythm, and some sang; and I, keeping silence, walked with them around the tower and was cheerful with them.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:246 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 138–305 · 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), and from the ancient Latin version where Lake prints it because the Greek is lost (from Sim. 9.30.3); made independently of existing English translations.

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Herm. Sim. 9.11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/5/).

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