{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1725.tlg001.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1725.tlg001.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1725.tlg001.local002","title":"Ad Autolycum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Theophilus","authorityName":"THEOPHILUS Apol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1725-theophilus-apol/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1725-theophilus-apol/","editors":["Johann Carl Theodor Otto"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Ad Autolycum libri tres","edition":null,"publisher":"Mauke","place":"Jena","date":"1861","volume":"8","series":"Corpus apologetarum christianorum saeculi secundi","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015056095840","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Theophilus. Ad Autolycum. ed. Johann Carl Theodor Otto. Ad Autolycum libri tres, Jena, Mauke, 1861. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1725.tlg001.local002","excerpt":"Στωμύλον μὲν οὖν στόμα καὶ φράσις εὐεπὴς τέρψιν παρέχει καὶ ἔπαινον πρὸς κενὴν δόξαν ἀθλίοις ἀνθρώποις ἔχουσι τὸν νοῦν κατεφθαρμένον· ὁ δὲ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐραστὴς οὐ προσέχει λόγοις μεμιαμμένοις, ἀλλὰ ἐξετάζει τὸ ἔργον τοῦ λόγου τί καὶ ὁποῖόν ἐστιν. Ἐπειδὴ οὖν, ὦ ἑταῖρε, κατέπληξάς με λόγοις κενοῖς καυχησάμενος ἐν τοῖς θεοῖς σου τοῖς λιθίνοις καὶ ξυλίνοις, ἐλατοῖς τε καὶ χωνευτοῖς καὶ πλαστοῖς καὶ γραπτοῖς, οἳ οὔτε βλέπουσιν οὔτε ἀκούουσιν (εἰσὶ γὰρ εἴδωλα καὶ ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων), ἔτι δὲ φῄς με καὶ Χριστιανὸν ὡς κακὸν τοὔνομα φοροῦντα, ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ὁμολογῶ εἶναι Χριστιανός, καὶ φορῶ τὸ θεοφιλὲς ὄνομα τοῦτο ἐλπίζων εὔχρηστος εἶναι τῷ θεῷ. Οὐ γὰρ ὡς σὺ ὑπολαμβάνεις, χαλεπὸν εἶναι τοὔνομα τοῦ θεοῦ, οὕτως ἔχει· ἴσως δὲ ἔτι αὐτὸς σὺ ἄχρηστος ὢν τῷ θεῷ περὶ τοῦ θεοῦ οὕτως φρονεῖς. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐὰν φῇς „Δεῖξόν μοι τὸν θεόν σου“, κἀγώ σοι εἴποιμι ἄν „Δεῖξόν μοι τὸν ἄνθρωπόν σου κἀγώ σοι δείξω τὸν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1725.tlg001.local002/#tlg1725-tlg001-local002-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1725.tlg001.local002/#tlg1725-tlg001-local002-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1725.tlg001.local002/#tlg1725-tlg001-local002-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1725.tlg001.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1725.tlg001.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1725/tlg001/local002.json.gz"}}