Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.1.4 (78.4)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Similitudes · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: In Arcadia he sees a plain surrounded by twelve mountains.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:218

καὶ ἀπήγαγέ με εἰς τὴν Ἀρκαδίαν, εἰς ὄρος τι μαστῶδες καὶ ἐκάθισέ με ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ ὄρους καὶ ἔδειξέ μοι πεδίον μέγα, κύκλῳ δὲ τοῦ πεδίου ὄρη δώδεκα, ἄλλην καὶ ἄλλην ἰδέαν ἔχοντα τὰ ὄρη.

English · Claude translation

And he led me away to Arcadia, to a certain breast-shaped mountain, and set me on the top of the mountain and showed me a great plain, and around the plain twelve mountains, each mountain having a different appearance.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:218 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 138–305 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913), and from the ancient Latin version where Lake prints it because the Greek is lost (from Sim. 9.30.3); made independently of existing English translations.

Notes

Translation notes

“Arcadia”: a region of Greece; why the vision is placed there is unclear.

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Herm. Sim. 9.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/1/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/1/4/).

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