Church History 5.1.37

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

Summary: Maturus, Sanctus, Blandina, and Attalus were brought to the beasts in the amphitheatre.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:192

ὁ μὲν οὖν Μάτουρος καὶ ὁ Σάγκτος καὶ “ἡ Βλανδῖνα καὶ Ἄτταλος ἤγοντο ἐπὶ τὰ θηρία εἰς τὸ “δημόσιον καὶ εἰς τὸ κοινὸν τῶν ἐθνῶν τῆς “πίας θέαμα, ἐπίτηδες τῆς τῶν θηριομαχιῶν ἡμέρας “διὰ τοὺς ἡμετέρους διδομένης.

English · Claude translation

Maturus, then, and Sanctus and Blandina and Attalus were led to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre, to the public spectacle of the Gentiles' inhumanity, a day of fighting with beasts being given expressly on account of our people.

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Source

Dindorf 4:192 · 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

Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons. Words at line beginnings are lost in this and the following sections of the digital text (e.g. “…πίας” for ἀπανθρωπίας, “inhumanity”); they are translated from the evident sense.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.37 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/37/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.37 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/37/).

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