Church History 5.11.2

Summary: Clement names Pantaenus as his teacher in the Outlines and alludes to him in the Miscellanies.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:210–211

ὃς δὴ καὶ ὀνομαστὶ ἐν αἷς συνέταξεν Ὑποτυπώσεσιν ὡσὰν διδασκάλου τοῦ Πανταίνου μέμνηται, τοῦτόν τε αὐτὸν καὶ τῶν Στρωματέων ἐν πρώτῳ συγγράμματι αἰνίτ- τεσθαί μοι δοκεῖ, ὅτε τοὺς ἐμφανεστέρους ἧς κατείληφεν ἀποστολικῆς διαδοχῆς ἐπισημαινόμενος ταῦτά φησιν

English · Claude translation

In the Outlines which he composed he mentions Pantaenus by name as his teacher, and he seems to me to allude to him also in the first book of the Miscellanies, when, indicating the more eminent men of the apostolic succession he had come across, he says:

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Dindorf 4:210–211 · 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.
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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
  • Clement of Alexandria, Clement, Hyp. (Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposes (fragments)) · allusion, medium confidence

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/11/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/11/2/).

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