(Les citations des pontes chez les apologistes chritiens du lie sik~cle),2 we ought to consider what seem to be the two oldest echoes of Homer and Hesiod, then pass at once to the mysterious Ad Graecos sometimes ascribed to Justin. In our opinion, Homer is first echoed in 1 Clement 20. 8. Following the suggestion of Werner Jaeger that there are echoes of other poetry in 1 Clement 20,' we venture to propose that Homer lurks in the words about the Ocean. not crossable by men, and the worlds beyond it, are directed by the same commands of the Master. It is Homer (Od. xi. 158) who speaks of Ocean, which is not possible for one to cross. To be sure, he adds line 159: foot, unless one has a well built ship. The banality of this may have contributed to Aristarchus' decision to delete lines 157-159 in toto. Knopf claimed that the text means endless but the examples and exegesis he gives show it means ftir die Menschen ohne Ende. We see at least a verbal parallel. Second, the influence of Hesiod seems present in the Wisdom of Solomon 14. 6, where we hear of haughty giants who were perishing at the time of the deluge. The adjective comes from the Theogony (149), where the giants, Cottus, Briareus, and Gyes, are described as the haughty offspring of Earth and Heaven. Barely noticeable, but at least suggesting, as we should expect, that in early Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity, Greek influence was not confined to philosophy. The third-century address Ad Graecos, ascribed to Justin in the one Greek manuscript (burned in 1870) and to Ambrose in a Syriac version first published by Cureton in his Spicilegium Syriacum, contains significant surprises in regard to Homer and Hesiod. The work begins with an attack on Greek poetry as full of madness and incontinence. A pupil in school who comes to the chief poet of the Greeks is described as the most wretched of men. Why is this?