Church History 6.41.16

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

Summary: The soldier Besas, who defended them, was beheaded.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:285

στρα- “τιώτης τε αὐτοῖς ἀπαγομένοις παραστὰς καὶ τοῖς “ἐφυβρίζουσιν ἐναντιωθεὶς, ἐκβοησάντων ἐκείνων “προσαχθεὶς ὁ ἀνδρειότατος ὁπλομάχος τοῦ θεοῦ “Βησᾶς, κἀν τῷ μεγάλῳ πολέμῳ τῷ περὶ τῆς εὐσε- “βείας ἀριστεύσας, ἀπετμήθη τὴν κεφαλήν.

English · Claude translation

A soldier who stood by them as they were led away and opposed those who insulted them, when they cried out against him, was brought forward — Besas, the bravest warrior of God; and having excelled in the great war for piety, he was beheaded.

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Dindorf 4:285 · 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

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/16/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/16/).

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