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Δεύτερονδ ὅτι ἐκ παντὸς γένους ἀνθρώπων οἱ πάλαι σεβόμενοι Διόνυσον τὸν Σεμέλης καὶ Ἀπόλλωνα τὸν Λητοΐδην, οἳ δι ἔρωτας ἀρσένων ὅσα ἔπραξαν αἶσχος καὶ λέγειν, καὶ οἱ Περσεφόνην καὶ Ἀφροδίτην, τὰς διὰ τὸν Ἄδωνιν οἰστρηθείσας, ὧν καὶ τὰ μυστήρια ἄγετε, ἢ Ἀσκληπιὸνἤ τινα τῶν ἄλλων ὀνομαζομένων θεῶν, καίπερ θανάτου ἀπειλουμένου διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τούτων μὲν κατεφρονήσαμεν, θεῷ δὲ τῷ ἀγεννήτῳ καὶ ἀπαθεῖ ἑαυτοὺς ἀνεθήκαμεν, ὃν οὔτε ἐπ Ἀντιόπην καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ὁμοίως οὐδὲ ἐπὶ Γανυμήδην δι οἶστρον ἐληλυθέναι πειθόμεθα, οὐδὲ λυθῆναι βοηθείας τυχόντα διὰ Θέτιδος ὑπὸ τοῦ ἑκατοντάχειρος ἐκείνου, οὐδὲ μεριμνῶντα διὰ τοῦτο τὸν τῆς Θέτιδος Ἀχιλλέα διὰ τὴν παλλακίδα Βρισηΐδα ὀλέσαι πολλοὺς τῶν Ἑλλήνων. Καὶ τοὺς πειθομένους ἐλεοῦμεν· τοὺς δὲ τούτων αἰτίους δαίμονας γνωρίζομεν
其二：我們本是從各族各類之人中而出，從前敬拜塞墨勒之子狄俄尼索斯、勒托之子阿波羅——他們因戀慕男色，所行之事連提都羞於啟齒——又有人敬拜珀耳塞福涅與阿芙羅狄忒，她們為著阿多尼斯而瘋狂，你們也舉行她們的祕儀，或敬拜阿斯克勒庇俄斯，或別的所謂神明；如今我們雖被死亡威脅，卻藉著耶穌基督輕看了這些，把自己獻給那無生、不受苦的神。我們深信祂從未像那樣，在淫慾的狂亂中去就安提俄佩和其餘的婦女，也未去就甘尼墨得斯；祂也未曾被那百手巨人藉忒提斯之助所釋放；更未為此憂心，致使忒提斯之子阿基里斯為著他的妾婢布里塞伊斯而毀滅了許多希臘人。我們憐憫那些被這等故事所說服的人，並認定那些事的主使者乃是眾鬼。
Second, that out of every race of men we, who once worshiped Dionysus the son of Semele and Apollo the son of Leto—who, on account of their love of males, did such things as are shameful even to mention—and those who worshiped Persephone and Aphrodite, who were maddened on account of Adonis, whose mysteries also you celebrate, or Asclepius, or some other of the so-called gods—we, though death is threatened, have through Jesus Christ despised these, and have dedicated ourselves to the unbegotten and impassible God, who, we are persuaded, never came in lustful frenzy upon Antiope and the other women in like manner, nor upon Ganymede; nor was he set free by the aid of that hundred-handed one through the help of Thetis; nor, on this account, did he take anxious thought that Achilles, the son of Thetis, should destroy many of the Greeks for the sake of his concubine Briseis. And we pity those who are persuaded by such tales, and we recognize the demons to be the authors of these things.