Church History 7.22.1

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

Summary: Plague followed the war, and Dionysius wrote an Easter letter about it.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:319

Μετὰ ταῦτα λοιμικῆς τὸν πόλεμον διαλαβούσης νόσου, τῆς τε ἑορτῆς πλησιαζούσης, αὖθις διὰ γραφῆς τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ὁμιλεῖ, τὰ τῆς συμφορᾶς ἐπισημαινόμενος πάθη διὰ τούτων

English · Claude translation

After this, when a pestilential disease followed the war, and the feast was drawing near, he again addressed the brothers by letter, indicating the sufferings of the calamity in these words:

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Source: Dindorf 4:319 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

The plague is the “Plague of Cyprian” (from ca. 250).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/1/).

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