2-14:14
Καὶ ὑμῦς οὖν ἀξιοῦμεν ὑπογράψαντας τὸ ὑμῖν δοκοῦν προθεῖναι τουτὶ τὸ βιβλίδιον, ὅπως καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τὰ ἡμέτερα γνωσθῇ καὶ δύνωνται της ψευδοδοξίας καὶ ἀγνοίας τῶν καλῶν ἀπαλλαγῆναι, οἳ παρὰ τὴν ἑαυτῶν αἰτίαν ὑπεύθυνοι ταῖς τιμωρίαις γίνονται [εἰς τὸ γνωσθῆναι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ταῦτα], διὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ φύσει τῇ τῶν ἀνθρώπων εἶναι τὸ γνωριστικὸν καλοῦ καὶ αἰσχροῦ, καὶ διὰ τὸ ἡμῶν, οὓς οὐκ ἐπίστανται τοιαῦτα ὁποῖα λέγουσιν αἰσχρὰ πράττειν, καταψηφίζεσθαι, καὶ διὰ τὸ χαίρειν τοιαῦτα πράξασι θεοῖς καὶ ἔτι νῦν ἀπαιτοῦσι παρὰ ἀνθρώπων τὰ ὅμοια, ὡς ἐκ τοῦ καὶ ἡμῖν, ὡς τοιαῦτα πράττουσι, θάνατον ἢ δεσμὰ ἢ ἄλλο τι τοιοῦτον προστιμᾶν ἑαυτοὺς κατακρίνειν, ὡς μὴ δέεσθαι ἄλλων δικαστῶν
We therefore ask you to subscribe what seems good to you and to publish this little book, so that our affairs may be made known to others also, and they may be able to be delivered from false opinion and from ignorance of good things—men who through their own fault become liable to punishments [in order that these things may be made known to men]—because of the fact that the discernment of what is good and what is shameful is in the nature of men; and because they condemn us, whom they do not understand to do such shameful things as they speak of; and because they delight in gods who did such things and even now demand the like from men, so that, as though we were doing such things, by sentencing us to death or bonds or any other such thing, they condemn themselves, so as to have no need of other judges.
因此我們請求你們批示你們所認為合宜的話，並將這小書頒布出去，使我們的事也得叫別人知道，叫他們能脫離錯謬的意見、脫離對善事的無知——這些人乃是因自己的過錯而落到當受刑罰的地步〔為要叫這些事得叫人知道〕——因為分辨何為善、何為可恥的能力本在人的天性之中;又因為他們定我們的罪，卻不知道我們並未行他們所說那等可恥之事;又因為他們以那些行了這等事、且如今仍向人索求同樣之事的眾神為樂，以致他們既彷彿我們行了這等事而判我們死刑、捆鎖或其他這類的刑罰，便等於定了自己的罪，無需別的審判官了。