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Church History 7.23.4

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

Summary: Dionysius dates his letter to the ninth year of Gallienus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:322

εἶθʼ ἑξῆς καὶ τὸν χρόνον, καθʼ ὃν ταῦτʼ ἔγραφε, διὰ τούτων σημαίνει “καί μοι πάλιν τὰς ἡμέρας τῶν βασιλικῶν “ἐτῶν ἔπεισι σκοπεῖν. ὁρῶ γὰρ, ὡς ὀνομασθέντες “μὲν οἱ ἀσεβέστατοι μετʼ οὐ πολὺ γεγόνασιν ἀνώνυ- “μοι, ὁ δὲ ὁσιώτερος καὶ φιλοθεώτερος ὑπερβὰς τὴν “ἑπταετηρίδα νῦν ἐνιαυτὸν ἔνατον διανύει, ἐν ᾧ “ἡμεϊς ἑορτάσωμεν.”

English · Claude translation

Then next he indicates the time when he was writing this, in these words: “And again it occurs to me to consider the days of the imperial years. For I see that the most impious, though famous, soon became nameless; while the holier and more God-loving emperor, having passed his seventh year, is now completing his ninth, in which we may keep the feast.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:322 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. Gallienus's ninth year is 261/2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/23/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/23/4/).

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