Church History 7.32.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Anatolius, a brilliant Alexandrian scholar, succeeded Eusebius at Laodicea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:340–341

Ἀνατόλιος αὐτῷ διάδοχος, ἀγαθός φασιν ἀγαθοῦ, καθίσταται, γένος μὲν καὶ αὐτὸς Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, λόγων δʼ ἕνεκα καὶ παιδείας τῆς Ἑλλήνων φιλοσοφίας τε τὰ τῶν μάλιστα καθʼ ἡμᾶς δοκιμωτάτων ἀπενηνεγμένος, ἅτε ἀριθμητικῆς καὶ γεωμετρίας ἀστρονομίας τε καὶ τῆς ἄλλης διαλεκτικῆς, ἔτι τε φυσικῆς θεωρίας, ῥητορικῶν τε αὖ μαθημάτων ἐληλακὼς εἰς ἄκρον· ὧν ἕνεκα καὶ τῆς ἐπʼ Ἀριστοτέλους διαδοχῆς τὴν διατριβὴν λόγος ἔχει πρὸς τῶν τῇδε πολιτῶν συστήσασθαι αὐτὸν ἀξιωθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

Anatolius was appointed his successor, a good man, as they say, succeeding a good one; he too was an Alexandrian by birth, and in learning, Greek education, and philosophy he had carried off the first place among the most approved of our time, having reached the summit in arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and the rest of dialectic, as well as natural philosophy and rhetoric. For these reasons, it is said, he was asked by the citizens there to establish the school of the Aristotelian succession.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:340–341 · 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)

Topics

Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/6/).