# Praeperatio Evangelica 7.3-3-6

Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, 7.3 to 7.6. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/praeperatio-evangelica/7.3-3

ἀλλὰ τούτων μὲν λόγος τοσοῦτος, ὅσον ἄν τις ἀξιώσειεν ἄνθρωπος ὢν ἀνθρωπίνοις· εἰ δ’ ἤδη καὶ τὸ θεῖον ἡμῶν καταστρατεύεται, παπαῖ, οἷα πεισόμεθα. ἀλλ’ οὐκ εἰκὸς, οὐδὲ δίκαιον, ἀπὸ γοῦν τούτων τεκμαιρομένοις ἡμῖν ἐχθρὲ περικτιόνεσσι, φίλ’ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν, εἴσω τὸ προβόλαιον ἔχων πεφυλαγμένος ἧσο. τί γὰρ, φησὶν ὁ Ἀργεῖος, εἰ βουλοίμην, ἔξεστί μοι, καὶ δύναμαι, εἴ μοι δόξειεν, ἧσθαι καὶ πεφυλάχθαι; ἔξεστιν, εἴποις ἂν, καὶ δύνασαι· ἢ πῶς ἄν σοι τοῦτ’ ἐγὼ προσέταττον; Χείρωνος φίλε τέκνον ἀγακλειτοῖο Κάρυστε, Πήλιον ἐκπρολιπὼν Εὐβοίας ἄκρον ἱκέσθαι, ἔνθ’ ἱερὰν χώραν κτίζειν σοι θέσφατόν ἐστιν. ἀλλ’ ἴθι. μηκέτι μέλλε.

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Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2018.tlg001.local001/.