Church History 6.41.18 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:286

καὶ σὺν αὐτοῖς γυναῖκες τέσσαρες· “ Ἀμμωνάριόν τε ἁγία παρθένος, πάνυ φιλονείκως “αὐτὴν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον τοῦ δικαστοῦ βασανίσαντος, “ἅτε προαποφηναμένην ὅτι μηδὲν ὧν ἐκεῖνος “φθέγξαιτο, ἀληθεύσασα τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν ἀπήχθη· “ αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ, ἡ σεμνοτάτη πρεσβῦτις Μερκουρία, “καὶ ἡ πολύπαις μὲν, οὐχ ὑπὲρ τὸν κύριον δὲ ‘πήσασα ἑαυτῆς τὰ τέκνα Διονυσία, καταιδεσθέντος “εἰς ἀνήνυτον ἔτι βασανίζειν καὶ ὑπὸ γυναικῶν ἡττᾶσθαι τοῦ ἡγεμόνος, σιδήρῳ τεθνᾶσι, μηκέτι “βασάνων πεῖραν λαβοῦσαι· τὰς γὰρ ὑπὲρ πασῶν “ἡ πρόμαχος Ἀμμωνάριον ἀναδέδεκτο

English · Claude translation

And with them four women. Ammonarium, a holy virgin, the judge tortured very relentlessly for a long time, because she had declared beforehand that she would utter none of the things he commanded; she kept her promise and was led away. The others — the most venerable aged Mercuria, and Dionysia, mother of many children but not loving them more than the Lord — when the governor was ashamed to go on torturing without result and to be beaten by women, died by the sword, without undergoing tortures; for Ammonarium, their champion, had received them on behalf of all.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:286 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 10:37 · echo, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. The participle “loving more” (ἀγαπήσασα) is partly lost in the digital text; cf. Matt 10:37. The fourth woman is not named in this text.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/18/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/18/).