Against the Cataphrygians (fragments)

Ad Avircium Marcellum contra Cataphrygas · Anonymous (anti-Montanist writer addressed to Avircius Marcellus) · c. 192-193 · other

Greek · domain: apostolic · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

No standalone English translation. The fragments survive in Eusebius, HE 5.16.3-5.17.4, and are therefore rendered inside translations of Eusebius (Loeb, Lake/Oulton 1926-32; NPNF II.1): the F1K Eusebius English text is the Loeb (data/tlg2018/tlg002/__cts__.xml). The 1871 ANL fragment volume translates Melito, Quadratus, Aristo, Apollinaris, Hegesippus, Rhodo, Polycrates, Serapion, Apollonius and Dionysius of Corinth but does not include this anonymous author: https://archive.org/details/AnteNiceneChristianLibraryV22. HOLLIS Primo searches return no translation edition of the anonymous; only monographs on Montanism.

Text from Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae vol. 2 (1846), per data/tlg1131/tlg001/__cts__.xml; 1,237 words. The fragment is the earliest external testimony to the Abercius inscription and to Montanist prophecy in Phrygia. Status is 'partial' because the only English is embedded inside Eusebius translations, with no edition of the fragments as a work.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (encoding); edition Routh 1846 is public domain urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1131.tlg001.1st1K-grc1
First1KGreek · HTML · CC BY-SA 4.0 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1131.tlg001.1st1K-grc1
First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (encoding); Loeb text 1926-32 public domain in some jurisdictions urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2018.tlg002.1st1K-eng1

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Against the Cataphrygians — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
The Panarion of St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis : selected passages Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403 · 1990 · eng	Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403. "The Panarion of St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis : selected passages." New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990019004730203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Against the Cataphrygians (fragments)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-anon-anti-montanist