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Church History 7.32.15

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

Summary: Anatolius: by that date the sun has passed the equinox; placing the first month before it is a serious error.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:343

εὑρίσκεται δὲ ὁ ἥλιος ἐν τῇ προκειμένῃ “Φαμενὼθ ἕκτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι οὐ μόνον ἐπιβὰς τοῦ “πρώτου τμήματος, ἀλλʼ ἤδη καὶ τετάρτην ἡμέραν “ἐν αὐτῷ διαπορευόμενος. τοῦτο δὲ τὸ τμῆμα πρῶ- “τον δωδεκατημόριον καὶ ἰσημερινὸν καὶ μηνῶν “ἀρχὴν καὶ κεφαλὴν τοῦ κύκλου καὶ ἄφεσιν τοῦ “τῶν πλανητῶν δρόμου καλεῖν εἰώθασι, τὸ δὲ πρὸ “τούτου μηνῶν ἔσχατον καὶ τμῆμα δωδέκατον καὶ “τελευταῖον δωδεκατημόριον καὶ τέλος τῆς τῶν πλα- “νητῶν περιόδου. διὸ καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτῷ τιθεμένους “τὸν πρῶτον μῆνα καὶ τὴν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην “τοῦ πάσχα κατʼ αὐτὴν λαμβάνοντας οὐ μικρῶς “οὐδʼ ὡς ἔτυχεν ἁμαρτάνειν φαμέν.

English · Claude translation

On the said twenty-sixth of Phamenoth the sun is found not only to have entered the first segment, but to be already passing through its fourth day. This segment they usually call the first twelfth, the equinoctial, the beginning of months, the head of the cycle, and the starting-point of the course of the planets; and the one before it the last of the months, the twelfth segment, the final twelfth, and the end of the circuit of the planets. Therefore we say that those who place the first month in it, and take the fourteenth of the Pascha by it, err not a little nor by chance.

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Source
Dindorf 4:343 · 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
  • Anatolius of Laodicea, Anatolius, Pasch. (Anatolius of Laodicea, On the Pascha) · quotation, high confidence

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  • Quotation from Anatolius of Laodicea.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/15/).

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