Church History 8.1.4

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

Summary: Dorotheus and Gorgonius, Christians of the imperial household, were highly honored by the emperors.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:348

οἷος ἐκεῖνος ἦν Δωρόθεος, πάντων αὐτοῖς εὐνούστατος καὶ πιστότατος, καὶ τούτων ἕνεκα διαφερόντως παρὰ τοὺς ἐν ἀρχαῖς καὶ ἡγεμονίαις αὐτοῖς τιμιωτάταις ἐντιμότατος, ὅ τε σὺν αὐτῷ περιβόητος Γοργόνιος, καὶ ὅσοι τῆς αὐτῆς ὁμοίως τούτοις ἠξίωντο διὰ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον τιμῆς.

English · Claude translation

Such was that Dorotheus, the most devoted and most faithful of all to them, and for this reason held in higher honor than those in high offices and governorships; and with him the celebrated Gorgonius, and all who had been counted worthy of the same honor as these because of the word of God.

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Source: Dindorf 4:348 · 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)

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Digital text corrected (wrong accent and breathing in the digital text): ἐκεῖνος ἢν Δωρόθεος → ἐκεῖνος ἦν Δωρόθεος.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/1/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/1/4/).

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