1-29:29
Καὶ πάλιν, μὴ τῶν ἐκτεθέντων τις μὴ ἀναληφθεὶς θανατωθῇ καὶ ὧμεν ἀνδροφόνοι· ἀλλ ἢ τὴν ἀρχὴν οὐκ ἐγαμοῦμεν εἰ μὴ ἐπὶ παίδων ἀνατροφῇ, ἢ παραιτούμενοι τὸ γήμασθαι τέλεον ἐνεγκρατευόμεθα. Καὶ ἤδη τις τῶν ἡμετέρων, ὑπὲρ τοῦ πεῖσαι ὑμᾶς ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν μυστήριον ἡ ἀνέδην μίξις, βιβλίδιον ἀνέδωκεν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ Φήλικι ἡγεμονεύοντι ἀξιῶν ἐπιτρέψαι ἰατρῷ τοὺς διδύμους αὐτοῦ ἀφελεῖν· ἄνευ γὰρ τῆς τοῦ ἡγεμόνος ἐπιτροπῆς τοῦτο πράττειν ἀπειρῆσθαι οἱ ἐκεῖ ἰατροὶ ἔλεγον. Καὶ μηδόλως βουληθέντος Φήλικος ὑπογράψαι, ἐφ ἑαυτοῦ μείνας ὁ νεανίσκος ἠρκέσθη τῇ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τῶν ὁμογνωμόνων συνειδήσει. Οὐκ ἄτοπον δὲ ἐπιμνησθῆναι ἐν τούτοις ἡγησάμεθα καὶ Ἀντινόου τοῦ νῦν γεγενημένου, ὃν καὶ πάντες ὡς θεὸν διὰ φόβον σέβειν ὥρμηντο, ἐπιστάμενοι τίς τε ἦν καὶ πόθεν ὑπῆρχεν
再者，我們惟恐被丟棄的嬰孩中有不被人收養而死的，以致我們成了殺人的；所以我們或是根本不娶，除非為著養育兒女，或是辭卻婚姻、過完全節制的生活。我們中間已經有一人，為要使你們確信雜亂的性交在我們中間並非甚麼祕儀，便在亞歷山大城向總督腓力斯呈上一份請願書，求他准許醫生為他除去睪丸；因為那裏的醫生說，未得總督的許可，行此事乃是被禁止的。及至腓力斯絕不肯簽署批准，這少年人就保持原樣，以自己並那些與他同心之人的良心為滿足。我們也認為在此提一提安提諾烏斯並非離題——他生在我們這時代，眾人因懼怕都被驅使去敬他為神，雖然他們明知他是誰、出於何處。
And again, lest any of those exposed should not be taken up but should die, and we become murderers, we either do not marry at all except for the rearing of children, or, declining marriage, we live in complete continence. And already one of our number, in order to persuade you that promiscuous intercourse is no mystery among us, presented a petition in Alexandria to Felix the governor, requesting that permission be given to a physician to remove his testicles; for the physicians there said that it was forbidden to do this without the governor's permission. And when Felix was by no means willing to subscribe to it, the young man, remaining as he was, was content with his own conscience and that of his like-minded companions. And we have thought it not out of place to mention here also Antinous, who lived in our own time, whom all were impelled to revere as a god through fear, although they knew who he was and whence he came.