Church History 3.6.11

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): with escape cut off, famine consumed whole families; roofs and alleys were full of the dead.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:91–92

τούτοις δὲ μεθʼ ἕτερα ἐπιφέρει λέγων Ἰουδαίοις δὲ μετὰ τῶν ἐξόδων ἀπεκόπη πᾶσα σωτη- “ρίας ἐλπίς. καὶ βαθύνας ἑαυτὸν ὁ λιμὸς κατʼ οἴκους “καὶ γενεὰς τὸν δῆμον ἐπεβόσκετο. καὶ τὰ μὲν τέγη ‘πεπλήρωτο γυναικῶν καὶ βρεφῶν λελυμένων, οἱ “στενωποὶ δὲ γερόντων νεκρῶν.

English · Claude translation

To these things he adds after others: “For the Jews, with the exits, every hope of safety was cut off. And the famine, deepening, devoured the people by households and families. The roofs were filled with women and babies who had perished, the alleys with dead old men.

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Source

Dindorf 4:91–92 · 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, J.W. 5.512–513 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation (3.6.11–16) is Josephus, J.W. 5.512–519.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/11/).

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