{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2035.tlg040.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg040.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2035.tlg040.local001","title":"Epistula ad Dracontium","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"ATHANASIUS Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2035-athanasius/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Epistula ad Dracontium, MPG 25: 524– 533. Cod: 1,898: Epist.","citationShort":"Epistula ad Dracontium, MPG 25: 524– 533."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"Epistula ad Dracontium. Epistula ad Dracontium, MPG 25: 524– 533.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2035.tlg040.local001","excerpt":"εἴτε οὕτως, ἄξιον μέμψεως τὸ παρὰ σοῦ γεγενημέ- νον, ἀγαπητὲ Δρακόντιε. Οὐ γὰρ ἔπρεπε λαβόντα σε τὴν χάριν κρύπτεσθαι, οὐδὲ φρόνιμον ὄντα, διδόναι τοῖς ἄλλοις προφάσεις φυγῆς. Πολλοὶ γὰρ ἀκούσαντες σκανδαλίζονται· οὐχ ὡς ἁπλῶς τοῦτό σου ποιοῦντος, ἀλλὰ συνορῶντος τὸν καιρὸν, καὶ τὰς ἐπικειμένας θλίψεις τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ. Καὶ φοβοῦμαι μὴ, διὰ σαυτὸν φεύγων, δι' ἄλλους εὑρεθῇς κινδυνεύων παρὰ τῷ Κυρίῳ. Εἰ γὰρ ὁ ἕνα τῶν μικρῶν σκανδαλίζων, ἕλοιτ' ἂν μύλον ὀνικὸν περὶ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ κρεμασθῆναι, καὶ καταποντισθῆναι· τί ἂν πά- θοις σὺ τοσούτοις γινόμενος σκάνδαλον; Καὶ γὰρ ἡ ἐκ παραδόξου γενομένη συμφωνία ἐν τῇ Ἀλεξαν- δρέων χώρᾳ, ἐν τῇ σῇ καταστάσει, ἐξ ἀνάγκης σχι- σθήσεται διὰ τὴν σὴν ἀναχώρησιν· καὶ ἡ ἐπισκοπὴ δὲ τῆς χώρας αὐτῆς ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἁρπαγήσεται· καὶ πολλῶν οὐκ ὀρθῶν, ἀλλ' ὧν οἶδας καὶ αὐτός. Καὶ ἐθνικοὶ δὲ οἱ ἐπαγγελλόμενοι Χριστιανοὶ γίνεσθαι ἐπὶ τῇ σῇ καταστάσει, ἀπομενοῦσιν…","divisions":[{"label":"25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg040.local001/#tlg2035-tlg040-local001-25"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg040.local001/#tlg2035-tlg040-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg040.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2035.tlg040.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035/tlg040/local001.json.gz"}}