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Church History 3.6.5

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): famine destroyed all shame, so that mothers snatched food from their infants' mouths.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:90

πά “ των μὲν δὴ παθῶν ὑπερίσταται λιμὸς, οὐδὲν “οὕτως ἀπόλλυσιν ὡς αἰδώς. τὸ γὰρ ἄλλως ἐντροπῆς “ ἄξιον ἐν τούτῳ καταφρονεῖται. γυναῖκες γοῦν ἀν- “ δρῶν καὶ παῖδες πατέρων, καὶ τὸ οἰκτρότατον, μʼ ‘τέρες νηπίων ἐξήρπαζον ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν στομάτων τʼ τροφάς. καὶ τῶν φιλτάτων ἐν χερσὶ μαραινομένῳ “ οὐκ ἦν φειδὼ τοὺς τοῦ ζῆν ἀφελέσθαι σταλαγμοῦ “

English · Claude translation

Famine overpowers all the passions, but nothing does it destroy so much as shame; for what at other times deserves respect is in this case despised. Wives snatched the food from their husbands, children from their fathers, and, most pitiable of all, mothers from their infants, out of their very mouths; and when their dearest were wasting away in their arms, there was no scruple about taking from them the life-giving drops.

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Source
Dindorf 4:90 · 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. 5.429–430 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 5.429–430.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/5/).

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