PG 6 · cols. 889–972

Athenagoras Atheniensis philosophus Christianus, Legatio pro Christianis (Πρεσβεία περὶ Χριστιανῶν)

Athenagoras of athens's plea to the emperors marcus aurelius and commodus, about 177, answering the three charges against the christians (atheism, cannibal feasts and incest), with the christian teaching on the one god, the son and the spirit, the poets' gods and the demons, and the christians' chaste life, in Greek, with the editors' notes (Migne, PG 6). The text was first read by Gemini (a machine reader); the Reading Room checked a sample of its columns against the page.