Dialogue with Trypho 3.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:14

Καὶ ὅς· Γνωρίζεις με; ἔφη. Ἠρνησάμην ἐγώ. Τί οὖν, μοι ἔφη, οὕτως με κατανοεῖς; Θαυμάζω, ἔφην, ὅτι ἔτυχες ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ μοι γενέσθαι· οὐ γὰρ προσεδόκησα ὄψεσθαί τινα ἀνδρῶν ἐνθάδε. Ὁ δέ· Οἰκείων τινῶν, φησί μοι, πεφρόντικα. Οὗτοι δέ μοί εἰσιν ἀπόδημοι· ἔρχομαι οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς σκοπήσων τὰ περὶ αὐτούς, εἰ ἄρα φανήσονταί ποθεν. Σὺ δὲ τί ἐνθάδε; ἐμοὶ ἐκεῖνος. Χαίρω, ἔφην, ταῖς τοιαύταις διατριβαῖς· ἀνεμπόδιστος γάρ μοι ὁ διάλογος πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν γίνεται, φιλολογίᾳ τε ἀνυτικώτατά ἐστι τὰ τοιάδε χωρία.

English · Claude translation

And he said, “Do you know me?” I said no. “Why then,” he said to me, “do you look at me so?” “I am surprised,” I said, “that you happened to be in the same place as I; for I did not expect to see anyone here.” And he said to me, “I am concerned about some of my household. They are away from home; so I have come myself to look out for them, in case they appear from somewhere. But what are you doing here?” “I enjoy such walks,” I said, “for here my conversation with myself is unhindered, and such places are most suitable for the love of discussion.”

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:14 · Georges Archambault, ed., Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du christianisme 8, 11 (Paris: Picard, 1909) · Greek text: G. Archambault, Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon (Paris, 1909), 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 Archambault (1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): Τί οὗν, μοι ἔφη → Τί οὖν, μοι ἔφη.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/3/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/3/2/).