# Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis 18.74

Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, Chapter 18. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athenagoras/legatio-sive-supplicatio-pro-christianis/18.74

Ἐπεὶ τοίνυν φασί τινες εἰκόνας μὲν εἶναι ταύτας, θεοὺς δὲ ἐφ᾿ οἶς αἱ εἰκόνες, καὶ τὰς προσόδους ἃς ταύταις προσίασι καὶ τὰς θυσίας ἐπ᾿ ἐκείνους ἀναφέρεσθαι καὶ εἰς ἐκείνους γίνεσθαι, μὴ εἶναί τε ἕτερον τρόπον τοῖς θεοῖς ἢ τοῦτον προσελθεῖν· Χαλεποὶ δὲ θεοὶ φαίνεσθαι ἐναργεῖς, καὶ τοῦ ταῦθ᾿ οὕτως ἔχειν τεκμήρια παρέχουσι τὰς ἐνίων εἰδώλων ἐνεργείας, φέρε ἐξετάσωμεν τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασι δύναμιν αὐτῶν.

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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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