Church History 4.26.11

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

Summary: Melito (quoted) trusts the philosopher-emperor to grant his request.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:178

σὲ δὲ καὶ μᾶλλον περὶ τούτων τὴν αὐτὴν ἐκείνοις “ἔχοντα γνώμην, καὶ πολύ γε φιλανθρωποτέραν καὶ “φιλοσοφωτέραν, πεπείσμεθα πάντα πράσσειν ὅσα “σου δεόμεθα.”

English · Claude translation

And we are persuaded that you, who hold the same opinion about these things as they, and one much more humane and philosophical, will do all that we ask of you.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:178 · 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

Melito of Sardis, Melito Apology (Melito of Sardis (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Melito, Apology.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/11/).

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