Church History 7.32.10 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The council voted to release all who could not fight.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:342

τοιούτοις τισὶ λογισμοῖς πείσας τὸ συνέδριον, ψῆφον πρῶτος ἀναστὰς ἐκφέρει, πὰν τὸ τῇ στρατείᾳ μὴ ἐπιτήδειον εἴτε ἀνδρῶν εἴτε γυναικῶν γένος ἀπολύειν τῆς πόλεως, ὅτι μηδὲ καταμένουσιν αὐτοῖς καὶ εἰς τὸ ἄχρηστον ἐν τῇ πόλει διατρίβουσιν ἐλπὶς ἂν γένοιτο σωτηρίας, πρὸς τοῦ λιμοῦ διαφθαρησομένοις.

English · Claude translation

Having persuaded the council with such arguments, he rose first and gave his vote that every person, man or woman, unfit for military service should be released from the city, since even if they stayed and remained useless in the city there would be no hope of safety for them, as they would perish from famine.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:342 · 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. 7.32.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/10/).