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Ταῦτα δ οὐκέτι οἷός τε φέρειν ὁ τύραννος, μισόκαλος ἐς τὰ μάλιστα καὶ πάντων ἀγαθῶν ἐπίβουλος ὑπάρχων, ὃν ἔφαμεν τῶν ἐπ᾿ ἀνατολῆς ἄρχειν μερῶν, οὐδ᾿ ὅλους ἐπὶ μῆνας ἓξ τοῦτον ἐπιτελεῖσθαι τὸν τρόπον ἠνέσχετο· ὅσα δ᾿ οὖν πρὸς ἀνατροπὴν τῆς εἰρήνης μηχανώμενος πρῶτον μὲν εἴργειν ἡμᾶς τῆς ἐν τοῖς κοιμητηρίοις συνόδου διὰ προφάσεως πειρᾶται, εἶτα διά τινων πονηρῶν ἀνδρῶν αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ καθ᾿ ἡμῶν πρεσβεύεται, τοὺς Ἀντιοχέων πολίτας παρορμήσας ἐπὶ τὸ μηδαμῶς τινα Χριστιανῶν τὴν αὐτῶν οἰκεῖν ἐπιτρέπεσθαι πατρίδα ὡς ἐν μεγίστῃ δωρεᾷ παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ τυχεῖν ἀξιῶσαι, καὶ ἑτέρους δὲ ταὐτὸ ὑποβαλεῖν διαπράξασθαι· ὧν πάντων ἀρχηγὸς ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς Ἀντιοχείας ἐπιφύεται Θεότεκνος, δεινὸς καὶ γόης καὶ πονηρὸς ἀνὴρ, καὶ τῆς προσωνυμίας ἀλλότριος· ἐδόκει δὲ λογιστεύειν τὰ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν.
But the tyrant could no longer endure these things, being beyond measure a hater of the good and a plotter against all that is good—he whom we said ruled the eastern parts; nor did he suffer matters to be carried on in this manner for even a full six months. Contriving, then, every device to overturn the peace, he first attempted on some pretext to shut us out from assembling in the cemeteries; next, through certain wicked men, he sent an embassy to himself against us, having urged on the citizens of Antioch to petition that, as a very great favour, they might obtain from him that no Christian should in any wise be permitted to dwell in their fatherland, and to bring it about that others should put forward the same suggestion. The originator of all this sprang up at Antioch itself, namely Theotecnus, a clever and a crafty and a wicked man, and at variance with his name; and he was reckoned to hold the office of curator in the city.
但那僭主再不能容忍這些事，他本是極端恨惡良善、敵視一切美善之人，就是我們所說轄管東方之地的那位；他連足足六個月也不容此事如此進行。於是他施盡各樣詭計以傾覆這平安，起先藉某種藉口企圖禁止我們在墓地聚集；其後又藉某些惡人，向自己呈遞控告我們的請願，他煽動安提阿的市民，請求得他恩准一件天大的好處，就是斷不許任何基督徒居住在他們的故土，並設法使別人也提出同樣的進言。這一切的禍首乃在安提阿城本地興起，就是提阿德克諾斯，一個狡猾、行邪術、邪惡的人，與他名字的含義全不相稱；他被認為在城中擔任稅吏之職。