Church History 5.1.47 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:194

ἐπιστείλαντος γὰρ τοῦ Καίσαρος τοὺς μὲν “ἀποτυμπανισθῆναι, εἰ δέ τινες ἀρνοῖντο, τούτους “ἀπολυθῆναι, τῆς ἐνθάδε πανηγύρεως (ἔστι δὲ αὕτη “πολυάνθρωπος ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν συνερχομένων “εἰς αὐτήν) ἀρχομένης συνεστάναι ἀνῆγεν ἐπὶ τὸ “βῆμα θεατρίζων τοὺς μακαρίους καὶ ἐμπομπεύων “τοῖς ὄχλοις. διὸ καὶ πάλιν ἀνήταζε, καὶ ὅσοι μὲν “ἐδόκουν πολιτείαν ῾Ρωμαίων ἐσχηκέναι, τούτων ἀπέ- “τεμνε τὰς κεφαλὰς, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς ἔπεμπεν εἰς “θηρία.

English · Claude translation

For Caesar had written that they should be beaten to death, but that if any denied, these should be released. And when the local festival was beginning (it is very crowded, with people coming to it from all the nations), the governor brought the blessed ones up to the tribunal, making a theatrical show and a parade of them for the crowds. So he examined them again, and those who seemed to have Roman citizenship he beheaded, and the rest he sent to the beasts.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:194 · 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 festival is the annual assembly of the Gallic provinces at Lyons (1 August).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin letter misread for τ in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): πολιIείαν → πολιτείαν; ἐπιστείλαντος γὰρ τοὐ → ἐπιστείλαντος γὰρ τοῦ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.47 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/47/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.47 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/47/).