Church History 5.24.4

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

Summary: Polycrates: Polycarp and Thraseas also rest at Smyrna.

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Dindorf 4:231

ἔτι δὲ καὶ “Πολύκαρπος ὁ ἐν Σμύρνῃ καὶ ἐπίσκοπος καὶ μάρτυς, “καὶ Θρασέας ἐπίσκοπος καὶ μάρτυς ἀπὸ ‘ὃς ἐν Σμύρνῃ κεκοίμηται.

English · Claude translation

and also Polycarp in Smyrna, both bishop and martyr; and Thraseas, bishop and martyr from Eumeneia, who has fallen asleep in Smyrna.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:231 · 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

Polycrates of Ephesus, Polycrates (Polycrates of Ephesus, Letter to Victor) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Polycrates of Ephesus. “Eumeneia” is lost in the digital text and supplied from the sense.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/4/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage