# Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis 17.68

Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athenagoras/legatio-sive-supplicatio-pro-christianis/17.68

Ἀνάγκη δὲ ἀπολογούμενον ἀκριβεστέρους παρέχειν τοὺς λογισμοὺς καὶ περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, ὅτι νεώτερα, καὶ περὶ τῶν εἰκόνων, ὅτι χθὲς καὶ πρώην γεγόνασιν, ὡς λόγῳ εἰπεῖν· ἴστε δὲ καὶ ὑμεῖς ταῦτα ἀξιολογώτερον, ὡς ἂν ἐν πᾶσι καὶ ὑπὲρ πάντας τοῖς παλαιοῖς συγγινόμενοι. Φημὶ οὖν Ὀρφέα καὶ Ὅμηρον καὶ Ἡσίοδον εἶναι τοὺς καὶ γένη καὶ ὀνόματα δόντας τοῖς ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν λεγομένοις θεοῖς.

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Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, ed. Francis Andrew March, William Baxter Owen. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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