Church History 7.18.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: A bronze statue group showed a kneeling woman and a man reaching out to her; a healing herb grew at its base.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:315–316

ἑστάναι γὰρ ἐφʼ ὑψηλοῦ λίθου πρὸς μὲν ταῖς πύλαις τοῦ αὐτῆς οἴκου γυναικὸς ἐκτύπωμα χάλκεον ἐπὶ γόνυ κεκλιμένον καὶ τεταμέναις ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσθεν ταῖς χερσὶν, ἱκετευούσῃ ἐοικὸς, τούτου δὲ ἄντικρυς ἄλλο τῆς αὐτῆς ὕλης ἀνδρὸς ὄρθιον σχῆμα, διπλοΐδα κοσμίως περιβεβλημένον, καὶ τὴν χεῖρα τῇ γυναικὶ προτεῖνον, οὗ παρὰ τοῖς ποσὶν ἐπὶ τῆς στήλης αὐτῆς ξένον τι βοτάνης εἶδος φύειν, ὃ μέχρι τοῦ κρασπέδου τῆς τοῦ χαλκοῦ διπλοΐδος ἀνιὸν, ἀλεξιφάρμακόν τι παντοίων νοσημάτων τυγχάνειν.

English · Claude translation

For on a high stone at the gates of her house stood a bronze figure of a woman on bended knee, with hands stretched out in front, like one in supplication; and opposite it another of the same material, the upright figure of a man, clothed decorously in a double cloak and stretching out his hand to the woman. At his feet on the base itself grew a strange kind of plant, which rose up to the hem of the bronze cloak and was a remedy for all kinds of diseases.

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Source

Dindorf 4:315–316 · 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. 7.18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/18/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/18/2/).