Letter to Victor of Rome on the Paschal controversy (fragment)

Epistula ad Victorem (fragmentum) · Polycrates of Ephesus · c. 190-195 · other

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

translated. A complete English translation exists. This dossier is included as a control, not as a gap; it shows what the register counts as translated.

Why this is in the register

English exists in ANL vol. 22, section 'Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus' (1871): https://archive.org/details/AnteNiceneChristianLibraryV22. The fragment is quoted in Eusebius, HE 5.24, and therefore also appears in the Loeb Eusebius (Lake/Oulton, 1926-32) and NPNF II.1. HOLLIS Primo searches for Polycrates return the Ephesian magistrate/tyrant and art-historical material, not a translation of the letter; no dedicated modern English edition was located.

F1K edition from Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae vol. 2 (Oxford 1846), per data/tlg1626/tlg001/__cts__.xml; 313 words. Included as the shortest documented item in the corpus; its value for the registry is the Paschal-controversy witness, not bulk.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Fragments of Polycrates of Ephesus · Ante-Nicene Christian Library 22 ('Fragments of the Second and Third Centuries') · unknown · 1871

Electronic text

Source and licence
First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (encoding); edition Routh 1846 is public domain urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1626.tlg001.1st1K-grc1
First1KGreek · HTML · CC BY-SA 4.0 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1626.tlg001.1st1K-grc1

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: Polycrates of Ephesus — 3 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
The testaments of the twelve patriarchs, and fragments of the second and third centuries · 1871 · eng	"The testaments of the twelve patriarchs, and fragments of the second and third centuries." Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1871. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990028160190203941
Arktouros Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday · 2011 · eng	"Arktouros Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday." Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2011]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158716105603941
Vestiarium Christianum the origin and gradual development of the dress of holy ministry in the church · 1868 · eng	"Vestiarium Christianum the origin and gradual development of the dress of holy ministry in the church." London : Rivingtons, 1868. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990024231630203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Letter to Victor of Rome on the Paschal controversy (fragment)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-polycrates-ephesus-letter