Church History 10.5.23 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:479

ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν πλείστους ἐκ διαφόρων καὶ ἀμυθήτων τόπων ἐπισκόπους εἰς τὴν Ἀρελατησίων πόλιν εἴσω Καλανδῶν Αὐγούστων συνελθεῖν ἐκελεύσαμεν, καὶ σοὶ γράψαι ἐνομίσαμεν, ἵνα λαβὼν παρὰ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Λατρωνιανοῦ τοῦ κορρήκτορος Σικελίας δημόσιον ὄχημα, συζεύξας σεαυτῷ καὶ δύο γέ τινας τῶν ἐκ τοῦ δευτέρου θρόνου, οὓς ἂν σὺ αὐτὸς ἐπιλέξασθαι κρίνῃς, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τρεῖς παῖδας τοὺς δυνησομένους ὑμῖν κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ὑπηρετήσασθαι παραλαβὼν, εἴσω τῆς αὐτῆς ἡμέρας ἐπὶ τῷ προειρημένῳ τόπῳ ἀπάντησον,

English · Claude translation

Since, therefore, we have commanded very many bishops from various and countless places to assemble in the city of Arles before the Kalends of August, we have thought it right to write to you also, that you should obtain a public vehicle from the most illustrious Latronianus, corrector of Sicily, take with you two others of the second rank whom you yourself may choose, and also three servants who will be able to attend you on the way, and meet at the aforesaid place by that same day,

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:479 · 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)

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The Council of Arles met in 314. “Those of the second rank” are presumably presbyters.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): ἔνα λαβὼν → ἵνα λαβὼν; οὑς ἂν σὺ → οὓς ἂν σὺ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/23/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/23/).