Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.2.9 (55.9)

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

Summary: The slave shares the master's food with his fellow slaves.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:156

μετὰ ἡμέρας ὀλίγας δεῖπνον ἐποίησεν καὶ ἔπεμψεν αὐτῷ ἐκ τοῦ δείπνου ἐδέσματα πολλά. λαβὼν δὲ ὁ δοῦλος τὰ ἐδέσματα τὰ πεμφθέντα αὐτῷ παρὰ τοῦ δεσπότου τὰ ἀρκοῦντα αὐτῷ ἦρε, τὰ λοιπὰ δὲ τοῖς συνδούλοις αὐτοῦ διέδωκεν.

English · Claude translation

After a few days he gave a dinner and sent him many dishes from the dinner. And the slave took the dishes sent to him by the master, kept what was enough for himself, and distributed the rest to his fellow slaves.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:156 · 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
Text: As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

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Herm. Sim. 5.2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/2/9/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/2/9/).

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