Church History 10.8.3

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

Summary: Out of envy Licinius made war on Constantine, disregarding kinship, oaths, and treaties.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:482

διαφθονηθείς γέ τοι τῷ πανευεργέτῃ πόλεμον δυσαγῆ καὶ δεινότατον πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐκφέρει, οὐ φύσεως νόμων φεισάμενος, οὐχ ὁρκωμοσιῶν, οὐχ αἵματος, οὐ συνθηκῶν μνήμην ἐν διανοίᾳ λαβών.

English · Claude translation

Envying, then, his universal benefactor, he waged an accursed and most terrible war against him, sparing neither the laws of nature, nor oaths, nor blood, nor giving any thought to treaties.

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Source: Dindorf 4:482 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/3/).

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