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Church History 5.1.56

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

Summary: After scourging, beasts, and the hot chair, Blandina was tossed by a bull and killed; even the pagans admired her endurance.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:196

καὶ μετὰ τὰς μάστιγας, μετὰ τὰ “θηρία, μετὰ τὸ τήγανον, τοὔσχατον εἰς γυργαθὸν “βληθεῖσα ταύρῳ παρεβλήθη, καὶ ἱκανῶς ἀναβλη- “θεῖσα πρὸς τοῦ ζῴου, μηδὲ αἴσθησιν ἔτι τῶν συμ- “βαινόντων ἔχουσα διὰ τὴν ἐλπίδα καὶ ἐποχὴν τῶν “πεπιστευμένων καὶ ὁμιλίαν πρὸς Χριστὸν, ἐτύθη “καὶ αὐτὴ, καὶ αὐτῶν ὁμολογούντων τῶν ἐθνῶν ὅτι “μηδεπώποτε παρʼ αὐτοῖς γυνὴ τοιαῦτα καὶ τοσαῦτα “ἔπαθεν.

English · Claude translation

After the whips, after the beasts, after the frying pan, she was at last put in a net and thrown to a bull. Tossed about for a long time by the animal, no longer even aware of what was happening because of her hope and grasp of what she believed and her communion with Christ, she too was sacrificed; and the Gentiles themselves admitted that never among them had a woman suffered so much and so terribly.

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Source
Dindorf 4:196 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.56 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/56/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.56 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/56/).

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