Church History 5.11.3

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

Summary: Clement: his Miscellanies are notes preserving what he heard from remarkable teachers.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:211

“ἤδη δὲ οὐ γραφὴ εἰς ἐπίδειξιν τετεχνασμένη ἥδε ἡ πραγματεία, ἀλλά μοι ὑπομνήματα εἰς γῆρας θησαυρίζεται, λήθης φάρμακον, εἴδωλον ἀτεχνῶς καὶ σκιαγραφία τῶν ἐναργῶν καὶ ἐμψύχων ἐκείνων ὧν “κατηξιώθην ἐπακοῦσαι λόγων τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν “ρίων καὶ τῷ ὄντι ἀξιολόγων.

English · Claude translation

“Now this work is not a writing artfully composed for display, but notes are stored up for my old age, a remedy against forgetfulness, simply an image and outline of those clear and living words which I was counted worthy to hear, and of blessed and truly remarkable men.

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Source

Dindorf 4:211 · 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.

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

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.1.11 (Miscellanies) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Clement, Miscellanies 1.1.11 (to 5.11.5). A word (μακαρίων, “blessed”) is partly lost in the digital text.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/11/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/11/3/).

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