Church History 3.20.5

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): Domitian despised them as harmless, freed them, and stopped the persecution.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:107

ἐφʼ οἷς μηδὲν αὐτῶν κατεγνωκότα τὸν Δπμετιανὸν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς εὐτελῶν καταφρονήσαντα, ἐλευθέρους μὲν αὐτοὺς ἀνεῖναι, καταπαῦσαι δὲ διὰ προστάγματος τὸν κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας διωγμόν.

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Dindorf 4:107 · 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.

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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

Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.20.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/20/5/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:107

English · Claude translation

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