{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2042.tlg045.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg045.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg045.local001","title":"Epistula ad Africanum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Origenes","authorityName":"ORIGENES Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2042-origenes/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2042-origenes/","editors":["Charles de La Rue","Charles Vincent de La Rue"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Origenis Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"J. P. Migne","place":"Paris","date":"1857","volume":"1","series":"Patrologiae cursus completus (series Graeca)","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":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"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/uiug.30112024028158?urlappend=%3Bseq=28","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Origenes. Epistula ad Africanum. ed. Charles de La Rue, Charles Vincent de La Rue. Origenis Opera Omnia, Paris, J. P. Migne, 1857. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg045.local001","excerpt":"Ὠριγένης Ἀφρικανῷ ἀγαπητῷ ἀδελφῷ ἐν Θεῷ Πατρὶ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἁγίου παιδὸς αὐτοῦ (16) εὖ πράττειν. Ἡ μὲν σὴ ἐπιστολὴ, διʼ ἧς ἐμάνθανον ἐνέφηνας περὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ Δανιὴλ φερομένης ἐν ταῖς Ἐκκλησίαις Σωσάννης, βραχεῖα μέν τις εἶναι δοκεῖ· ἐν ὀλίγοις δὲ πολλὰ προβλήματα ἕχουσα, ὧν ἕκαστον ἐδεῖτο οὐ τῆς τυχούσης ἐξεργασίας, ἀλλὰ τοσαύτης, ὥστε ὑπερβαίνειν τὸν ἐπιστολικὸν χαρακτῆρα, καὶ συγγράμματος ἔχειν (17) περιγραφήν. Ἐγὼ δὲ τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ τῆς διανοίας μέτριον, ὅση δύναμις, κατανοῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἀναισθητοίην ἐμαυτοῦ, θεωρῶ, ὅτι ἀπολείπομαι τῆς ἀπαιτουμένης ἀκριβείας εἰς τὴν ἀντιγραφὴν τῆς ἐπιστολῆς σου· ὡς καὶ οὐδʼ ὀλίγαι τῆς ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ διατριβῆς ἡμέραι μοι διήρκουν πρὸς historiam, nec hymnum trium puerorum, nec Belis Draconisque fabulas. s Vide ibidem paulo post quibus cavillationibus eas perfundat qudam de præceptoribus Judæorum. (12) Ἐξῆς οὐδείς, etc, Origenes, in responso, Africani…","divisions":[{"label":"ΩΡΠΕΝΟΥΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ ΠΡΟΣ ΑΦΡΙΚΑΝΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg045.local001/#tlg2042-tlg045-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg045.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2042.tlg045.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042/tlg045/local001.json.gz"}}