Church History 4.7.6

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

Summary: Agrippa Castor's refutation of Basilides has survived.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:142

ὡν εἰς ἡμᾶς κατῆλθεν ἐν τοῖς τότε γνωριμωτάτου συγγραφές Ἀγρίππα Κάστορος ἱκανώτατος κατὰ Βασιλείδου ἔλεγχος, τὴν δεινότητα τῆς τἀνδρὸς ἀποκαλύπτων γοητείας.

English · Claude translation

Of these there has come down to us, from a writer very well known at that time, Agrippa Castor, a most able refutation of Basilides, exposing the cleverness of the man's sorcery.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:142 · 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)
Topics: Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Agrippa Castor's work is lost apart from Eusebius's report.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/6/).

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