Church History 2.17.8

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

Summary: Philo (quoted): the best of them settle on a hill above Lake Mareotis.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:66

οἱ δὲ πανταχόθεν ἄριστοι, καθάπερ εἰς πατρίδα θεραπευτῶν, ἀποικίαν στέλλονται πρός τι χωρίον ἐπιτηδειότατον, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὑπὲρ λίμνης Μάριας κείμενον ἐπὶ γεωλόφου χθαμαλωτέρου σφόδρα εὐκαίρως, ἀσφαλείας τε ἕνεκα καὶ ἀέρος εὐκρασίας.’

English · Claude translation

And the best from every quarter are sent as colonists, as to the homeland of the Therapeutae, to a most suitable place, which lies above Lake Mareotis on a rather low hill, very conveniently situated for safety and for the mildness of the air.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:66 · 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

Philo, Contempl. 22 (Philo of Alexandria (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Philo, Contempl. 22. The digital text has Μάριας for Μαρείας.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.17.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/17/8/).

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