1:1
Ὡς δὲ καὶ Σεβῆρος διωγμὸν κατὰ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἐκίνει, λαμπρὰ μὲν τῶν ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας ἀθλητῶν κατὰ πάντα τόπον ἀπετελεῖτο μαρτύρια, μάλιστα δ ἐπλήθυεν ἐπ Ἀλεξανδρείας, τῶν ἀπ Αἰγύπτου καὶ Θηβαίδος ἁπάσης ἀριστίνδην αὐτόθι ὥσπερ ἐπὶ μέγιστον ἀθλητῶν θεοῦ παραπεμπομένων στάδιον, διὰ καρτερικωτάτης τε ποικίλων βασάνων καὶ θανάτου τρόπων ὑπομονῆς τοὺς παρὰ θεῷ στεφάνους ἀναδουμένων. ἐν οἷς καὶ Λεωνίδης ὁ λεγόμενος Ὠριγένους πατὴρ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτμηθεὶς νέον κομιδῆ καταλείπει τὸν παῖδα, ὃς δὴ ὁποίας ἐξ ἐκείνου περὶ τὸν θεῖον λόγον προαιρέσεως ἦν, οὐκ ἄκαιρον διὰ βραχέων διελθεῖν, τῷ μάλιστα πολὺν εἶναι παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς τὸν περὶ αὐτοῦ βεβοημένον λόγον.
And when Severus too was stirring up persecution against the churches, splendid martyrdoms of the champions of piety were accomplished in every place, but they abounded most of all at Alexandria, whither God's athletes were escorted, picked for their valour, from Egypt and the whole Thebais, as to some greatest arena, and through their most steadfast endurance of varied tortures and modes of death were wreathed with the crowns laid up with God. Among these Leonides also, called the father of Origen, was beheaded, leaving his son behind him while still very young. It will not be out of season to relate briefly what was that son's disposition toward the divine Word from that time, especially since the report widely noised abroad about him among the many is great.
當塞威如斯皇帝也掀起逼迫教會之時，敬虔的勇士們在各處成就了輝煌的殉道，而在亞歷山大尤為眾多；神的鬥士們因其卓越，從埃及和整個底比斯地被押解到那裏，如同被送進一座極大的競技場，他們以最堅忍的態度忍受各樣酷刑與種種死法，便得了那存留在神那裏的冠冕。其中還有那位被稱為俄利根之父的雷歐尼德，他被斬首，留下還很年幼的兒子。這孩子從那時起對於神聖之道存著怎樣的志向，簡略地述說一番並非不合時宜，尤其因為眾人中間傳揚關於他的話聲名甚廣。