Church History 4.15.7

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

Summary: Quintus, a Phrygian newcomer, lost courage at the sight of the beasts and fell away.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:154–155

καὶ δὴ πλείστης ἐπὶ ταῖ βοαῖς γενομένης ταραχῆς Φρύγα τινὰ τὸ γένος, Κόϊντον τοὔνομα, νεωστὶ ἐκ τῆς Φρυγίας ἐπιστάντα, ἰδόντα τοὺς θῆρας καὶ τὰς ἐπὶ τούτοις ἀπειλὰς καταπτῆξαι τὴν ψυχὴν μαλακισθέντα, καὶ τέλος τῆς σωτηρίας ἐνσθῦναι.

English · Claude translation

And when a very great disturbance arose at the shouts, a certain Phrygian by race named Quintus, newly arrived from Phrygia, seeing the beasts and the threats that went with them, was terrified in soul and gave way, and at last gave up his salvation.

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Source

Dindorf 4:154–155 · 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

Mart. Pol. 4 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Paraphrase of Mart. Pol. 4. The digital text has ἐνσθῦναι for ἐνδοῦναι.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/7/).

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