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Church History 7.22.10

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

Summary: Pagans abandoned their sick and dead, yet could not escape the plague.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:321

τὰ δέ γε ἔθνη πᾶν “τοὐναντίον· καὶ νοσεῖν τε ἀρχομένους ἀπωθοῦντο, “καὶ ἀπέφευγον τοὺς φιλτάτους, κἀν ταῖς ὁδοῖς ἐρ- “ρίπτουν ἡμιθνῆτας, καὶ νεκροὺς ἀτάφους ἀπεσκυ- “βαλίζοντο, τὴν τοῦ θανάτου διάδοσιν καὶ κοινωνίαν ἐκτρεπόμενοι, ἣν οὐκ ἦν καὶ πολλὰ μηχανωμένοις “ἐκκλῖναι ῥᾴδιον.“

English · Claude translation

But the pagans did the very opposite. They pushed away those who began to be sick, fled from their dearest, threw them half-dead into the roads, and cast out the dead unburied like refuse, trying to avoid the spread and contagion of death, which was not easy to escape however much they contrived.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:321 · 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
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  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/10/).

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