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Church History 3.6.7

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): old men, women, and infants were brutally robbed of food.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:91

ἐτύπτοντο δὲ γέρον- “τες ἀντεχόμενοι τῶν σιτίων, καὶ κόμης ἐσπαράσσοντο “γυναῖκες, συγκαλύπτουσαι τὰ ἐν χερσίν· οὐδέ τις “ἦν οἶκτος πολιᾶς ἢ νηπίων, ἀλλὰ συνεπαίροντες “νήπια τῶν ψωμῶν ἐκκρεμάμενα κατέσειον εἰς ἔδα- “φος. τοῖς δὲ φθάσασι τὴν εἰσδρομὴν αὐτῶν καὶ “προκαταπιοῦσι τὸ ἁρπαγησόμενον ὡς ἀδικηθέντες ‘ἦσαν ὠμότεροι.

English · Claude translation

Old men who clung to their food were beaten, and women were dragged by the hair for hiding what was in their hands; there was no pity for grey hair or for infants, but they lifted up infants clinging to the morsels and dashed them to the ground. To those who had anticipated their entry and swallowed beforehand what was to be seized, they were more savage, as if wronged.

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Dindorf 4:91 · 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. 5.433 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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  • Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 5.433.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/7/).

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