Church History 7.32.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Dorotheus, a eunuch from birth, was made head of the imperial purple dye-works at Tyre.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:340

. ἦν δʼ οὗτο τῶν μάλιστα ἐλευθερίων, προπαιδείας τε τῆς καθʼ Ἕλληνας οὐκ ἄμοιρος, τὴν φύσιν δὲ ἄλλως εὐνοῦχος, οὕτω πεφυκὼς ἐξ αὐτῆς γενέσεως ὡς καὶ βασιλέα διὰ τοῦτο οἷόν τι παράδοξον αὐτὸν οἰκειώσασθαι, καὶ τιμῆσαί γε ἐπιτροπῇ τῆς κατὰ Τυρὸν ἁλουργοῦ βαφῆς.

English · Claude translation

He was among the most liberally educated, and not without a share of preliminary Greek learning, but a eunuch by nature, having been so from his very birth, so that the emperor on this account took him into his household as a kind of wonder, and honoured him with the charge of the purple dye-works at Tyre.

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Source

Dindorf 4:340 · 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. 7.32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/3/).