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Papias of Hierapolis
c. AD 100-130 · 10 fragments
Papias gathered what the elders remembered of the Lord's teaching in five books that are lost; these fragments survive in quotations by Irenaeus, Eusebius and others, including his account of how Mark and Matthew wrote.
Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive scans.