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Church History 7.11.10

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

Summary: Aemilianus banishes them to Cephro and forbids assemblies and visits to the cemeteries.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:307–308

Αἰμιλιανὸς διέπων τὴν ἡγεμονίαν “αὐτοῖς εἶπεν· ὁρῶ ὑμᾶς ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀχαρίστους ὄντας “καὶ ἀναισθήτους τῆς πραότητος τῶν σεβαστῶν ἡμῶν. “διόπερ οὐκ ἔσεσθε ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, ἀλλὰ ἀποστα- “λήσεσθε εἰς τὰ μέρη τῆς Λιβύης, καὶ ἐν τόπῳ “λεγομένῳ Κεφρώ· τοῦτον γὰρ τὸν τόπον ἐξελεξάμην ‟ἐκ τῆς κελεύσεως τῶν σεβαστῶν ἡμῶν. οὐδαμῶς ‟δὲ ἐξέσται οὔτε ὑμῖν οὔτε ἄλλοις τισὶν ἢ συνόδους ‟ποιεῖσθαι, ἢ εἰς τὰ καλούμενα κοιμητήρια εἰσιέναι. ‟

English · Claude translation

Aemilianus, acting prefect, said to them: ‘I see that you are at once ungrateful and insensible of the clemency of our Augusti. Therefore you shall not be in this city, but shall be sent to the parts of Libya, to a place called Cephro; for I have chosen this place by the command of our Augusti. It will in no way be permitted to you or to any others either to hold assemblies or to enter the so-called cemeteries.

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Source
Dindorf 4:307–308 · 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
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the court record in Dionysius's letter.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/10/).

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