Church History 6.9.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Wicked men, fearing exposure, slandered Narcissus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:251

ἄλλα τε πλεῖστα περὶ τοῦ βίου τοῦδε τοῦ ἀνδρὸς μνήμης ἄξια καταλέγουσιν, ἐν οἷς καὶ τοιόνδε τι. τὸ εὔτονον αὐτοῦ καὶ στερρὸν τοῦ βίου φαῦλοί τινες ἀνθρωπίσκοι μὴ οἷοί τε φέρειν, δέει τοῦ μὴ δίκην ὑποσχεῖν ἁλόντας, διὰ τὸ μυρία κακὰ ἑαυτοῖς συνειδέναι, συσκευὴν κατʼ αὐτοῦ προλαβόντες συρράπτουσι, καί τινα δεινὴν καταχέουσιν αὐτοῦ διαβολήν.

English · Claude translation

They relate very many other things about this man's life worthy of remembrance, among them this. Some worthless fellows, unable to bear the strength and firmness of his life, and fearing that they would be caught and punished because they were conscious of countless crimes, anticipated him by concocting a plot against him and poured out a terrible slander against him.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:251 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/4/).