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Church History 6.41.8

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

Summary: Serapion was tortured and thrown from his roof; the streets were unsafe for Christians.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:284

Σαραπίωνά τε καταλαβόντες “ἐφέστιον, σκληραῖς βασάνοις αἰκισάμενοι, καὶ πάντα “τὰ ἄρθρα διακλάσαντες, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑπερῴου πρηνῆ “ κατέρριψαν. οὐδεμία δὲ ὁδὸς, οὐ λεωφόρος, οὐ στε- “νωπὸς ἡμῖν βάσιμος ἦν, οὐ νύκτωρ, οὐ μεθʼ ἡμέ- “ραν, ἀεὶ καὶ πανταχοῦ πάντων κεκραγότων, εἰ μὴ “τὰ δύσφημά τις ἀνυμνοίη ῥήματα, τοῦτον δεῖν σύρεσθαί τε καὶ πίμπρασθαι.

English · Claude translation

They seized Serapion in his house, tormented him with harsh tortures, broke all his limbs, and threw him headlong from the upper storey. No road, no highway, no lane was passable for us, by night or by day; always and everywhere all were crying out that anyone who did not chant the blasphemous words must be dragged off and burned.

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Source
Dindorf 4:284 · 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, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/8/).

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