3:1
Πλεῖστα δ᾿ οὗτος καθ᾿ ἡμῶν στρατευσάμενος, καὶ πάντα τρόπον τοὺς ἡμετέρους, ὥσπερ τινὰς φῶρας ἀνοσίους, ἐκ μυχῶν θηρεῦσαι διὰ σπουδῆς πεποιημένος, πάντα τε ἐπὶ διαβολῇ καὶ κατηγορίᾳ τῇ καθ᾿ ἡμῶν μεμηχανημένος, καὶ θανάτου αἴτιος μυρίοις ὅσοις γεγονὼς τελευτῶν εἴδωλόν τι Διὸς φιλίου μαγγανείαις τισὶ καὶ γοητείαις ἱδρύεται, τελετάς τε ἀνάγνους αὐτῷ καὶ μυήσεις ἀκαλλιερήτους, ἐξαγίστους τε καθαρμοὺς ἐπινοήσας, μέχρι καὶ βασιλέως τὴν τερατείαν δι᾿ ὧν ἐδόκει χρησμῶν ἐκτελεῖν ἐπεδείκνυτο· καὶ δὴ καὶ οὗτος κολακείᾳ τῇ καθ᾿ ἡδονὴν τοῦ κρατοῦντος ἐπεγείρει κατὰ Χριστιανῶν τὸν δαίμονα, καὶ τὸν θεὸν δὴ κελεῦσαί φησιν, ὑπερορίους τῆς πόλεως καὶ τῶν ἀμφὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀγρῶν ὡσὰν ἐχθροὺς αὐτῷ Χριστιανοὺς ἀπελάσαι.
This man, then, having waged very many campaigns against us, and having made it his earnest endeavour by every means to hunt our people out of their hiding-places as though they were unholy thieves, and having contrived everything to slander and accuse us, and having become the cause of death to countless multitudes, at last set up by certain conjurings and sorceries an image of Zeus the Befriender, and having devised for it unhallowed rites and ill-omened initiations and abominable purifications, he displayed his wonder-working through what he pretended to be oracles, even in the Emperor's presence. And moreover this fellow, by flattery according to the ruler's pleasure, stirred up the demon against the Christians, and declared that the god, forsooth, had commanded that the Christians, as being his enemies, should be driven out beyond the borders of the city and of the fields around the city.
這人既屢次興兵攻擊我們，又竭力以各樣方法，將我們的人如同不潔的賊一般，從隱密處搜捕出來，又設謀施盡毀謗與控告我們，且作了無數人喪命的緣由，末了竟藉某些魔術與邪術，立了一尊「友誼之宙斯」的偶像，又為它設立不潔的祭儀、凶兆的入教禮並可憎的潔淨禮，甚至在皇帝面前藉他所佯稱的神諭施行他的奇術。而且此人為迎合掌權者的喜好而行諂媚，挑動鬼魔攻擊基督徒，並聲稱那神確曾吩咐，要將基督徒當作仇敵，驅逐出城界並城周圍的田地之外。