Church History 6.3.12

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

Summary: He went barefoot for years and abstained from wine and all but necessary food, endangering his health.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:245–246

λέγεται γοῦν καὶ πλειόνων ἐτῶν γῆν πεπατηκέναι, μηδενὶ μηδαμῶς κεχρημένος ὑποδήματι, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἴνου χρήσεως καὶ τῶν ἄλλων παρὰ τὴν ἀναγκαίαν τροφὴν πλείστοις ἔτεσιν ἀπεσχημένος, ὥστε ἤδη εἰς κίνδυνον ἀνατροπῆς καὶ διαφθορᾶς τοῦ θώρακος περιπεσεῖν.

English · Claude translation

He is said to have walked the ground for several years without using any shoes at all, and for very many years to have abstained from wine and from everything but necessary food, so that he fell into danger of ruining and destroying his chest.

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Source: Dindorf 4:245–246 · 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: Fasting

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/12/).

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