Church History 5.24.16 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:233

καὶ τοῦ μακα- “ρίου Πολυκάρπου ἐπιδημήσαντος τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἐπὶ “κήτου, καὶ περὶ ἄλλων τινῶν μικρὰ σχόντες πρὸς “ἀλλήλους εὐθὺς εἰρήνευσαν, περὶ τούτου τοῦ κεφα- “λαίου μὴ φιλεριστήσαντες̣ εἰς ἑαυτούς. οὔτε γὰρ ὁ Ἀνίκητος τὸν Πολύκαρπον πεῖσαι ἐδύνατο μὴ τη- “ῥεῖν, ἅτε μετὰ Ἰωάννου τοῦ μαθητοῦ τοῦ κυρίου “ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀποστόλων, οἷς “ἀεὶ τετηρηκότα, οὔτε μὴν ὁ Πολύκαρπος τὸν Ἀνίκητον ἔπεισε τηρεῖν, λέγοντα τὴν συνήθειαν τῶν “πρὸ αὐτοῦ πρεσβυτέρων ὀφείλειν κατέχειν.

English · Claude translation

And when the blessed Polycarp was staying in Rome in the time of Anicetus, and they had some small disagreements about other things, they at once made peace, not wishing to quarrel about this matter. For neither could Anicetus persuade Polycarp not to observe it, since he had always observed it with John the disciple of our Lord and the other apostles with whom he had associated; nor did Polycarp persuade Anicetus to observe it, for he said he ought to keep the custom of the presbyters before him.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:233 · 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)

Topics

Church office, Fasting

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Letter to Victor. The digital text repeats ἡμῶν and lacks the verb “associated” (συνδιέτριψεν).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text; repeated word in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): τοὐ μαθητοῦ → τοῦ μαθητοῦ; “ἡμῶν ἡμῶν → “ἡμῶν; πρὸ οὐτοῦ → πρὸ αὐτοῦ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/16/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/16/).