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Church History 1.8.7

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Josephus (quoted) describes Herod's gangrene, worms, gasping, and convulsions.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:30–31

παραπλησία δὲ καὶ περὶ τὸ ἦτρον κάκωσις ἦν. ναὶ μὴν καὶ τοῦ αἰδοίου σῆψις σκώληκας ἐμποιοῦσα, πνεύματός τε ὀρθία ἔντασις, καὶ αὐτὴ λίαν ἀηδὴς ἀχθηδόνι τε τῆς “ἀποφορᾶς καὶ τῷ πυκνῷ τοῦ ἂσθματος. ὃς. σπασμός τε περὶ πᾶν ἢν μέλος, ἰσχὺν οὐχ ὑπομενητὴν προστι- “ θέμενος.

English · Claude translation

There was a similar affliction of the abdomen; indeed also a putrefaction of the private parts that produced worms, and a violent straining of breath, itself very unpleasant because of the foulness of the discharge and the rapidity of the breathing; and there was convulsion in every limb, which brought on unbearable force.

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Source
Dindorf 4:30–31 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. 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), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, Ant. 17.169 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 17.169.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/7/).

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