Church History 4.16.8

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

Summary: Tatian (quoted): Crescens in Rome was notorious for pederasty and greed.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:164–165

εἶτʼ ἐπειπών τινα περὶ τῶν φιλοσόφων ἐπιλέγει ταῦτα “Κρίσκης γοῦν, ὁ ἐννεοττεύσας τῇ “μεγάλῃ πόλει, παιδεραστίᾳ μὲν πάντας ὑπερήνεγκε, ‘φιλαργυρίᾳ δὲ πάνυ προσεχὴς ἦν.

English · Claude translation

Then, after saying some things about the philosophers, he adds this: “Crescens, at any rate, who made his nest in the great city, surpassed all in pederasty and was wholly given to love of money.

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Dindorf 4:164–165 · 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

Tatian, Or. Graec. 19 (Oration to the Greeks) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Tatian, Or. 19.1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/8/).

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