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Church History 6.41.7

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

Summary: The aged virgin Apollonia had her teeth knocked out and leapt into the fire rather than blaspheme.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:283–284

ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν “θαυμασιωτάτην τότε παρθένον πρεσβῦτιν Ἀπολλωνίαν διαλαβόντες, τοὺς μὲν ὀδόντας ἅπαντας, κόπτοντες τὰς σιαγόνας, ἐξήλασαν, πυρὰν δὲ νήσαν- “τες πρὸ τῆς πόλεως ζῶσαν ἠπείλουν κατακαύσειν, “εἰ μὴ συνεκφωνήσειεν αὐτοῖς τὰ τῆς ἀσεβείας “κηρύγματα. ἡ δὲ ὑποπαραιτησαμένη βραχὺ καὶ “ἀνεθεῖσα συντόνως ἐπεπήδησεν εἰς τὸ πῦρ καὶ “καταπέφλεκται.

English · Claude translation

They also seized the most wonderful aged virgin Apollonia, broke her jaws and knocked out all her teeth, and piling a pyre before the city threatened to burn her alive if she did not join them in uttering their impious proclamations. She asked for a little time, and when released, leapt eagerly into the fire and was burned up.

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Source
Dindorf 4:283–284 · 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
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/7/).

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