Church History 5.1.44 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:193

καὶ περιαχθεὶς κύκλῳ τοῦ “ἀμφιθεάτρου, πίνακος αὐτὸν προάγοντος ἐν ᾧ ἐγέ- “γραπτο ‘οὗτός ἐστιν Ἄτταλος ὁ “νόςʼ, καὶ τοῦ δήμου σφόδρα σφριγῶντος ἐπʼ αὐτῷ, ‘ μαθὼν ὁ ἡγεμὼν ὅτι Ῥωμαῖός ἐστιν, ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν ἀναληφθῆναι μετὰ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν τῶν ἐν τῇ “εἱρκτῇ ὄντων, περὶ ὧν ἐπέστειλε τῷ Καίσαρι, καὶ περιέμενε τὴν ἀπόφασιν τὴν ἀπʼ ἐκείνου.

English · Claude translation

He was led round the amphitheatre with a placard carried before him on which was written in Latin, “This is Attalus the Christian,” and the people were swelling with fury against him; but the governor, learning that he was a Roman, ordered him to be taken back with the rest who were in prison, about whom he had written to Caesar, and he awaited his decision.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:193 · 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. The words “in Latin” and “Christian” are partly lost in the digital text and supplied from the sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): κύκλῳ τοὐ → κύκλῳ τοῦ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.44 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/44/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.44 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/44/).