Church History 8.10.1

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

Summary: Eusebius introduces a letter of Phileas describing the martyrdoms at Alexandria.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:361–362

Ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἔξωθεν μαθημάτων ἕνεκα πολλοῦ λόγου ἄξιον γενέσθαι τὸν Φιλέαν ἔφαμεν, αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ παρίτω μάρτυς, ἄμα μὲν ἑαυτὸν ὅστις ποτʼ ἦν ἐπιδείξων, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὰ κατʼ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ συμβεβηκότα μαρτύρια ἀκριβέστερον μᾶλλον ἢ ἡμεῖς ἱστορήσων διὰ τούτων τῶν λέξεων

English · Claude translation

Since we have said that Phileas deserved great esteem for his secular learning as well, let him come forward as his own witness, both to show who he was and to relate, more exactly than we could, the martyrdoms that took place in his time at Alexandria, in these words:

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Source: Dindorf 4:361–362 · 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: Martyrdom

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/10/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/10/1/).

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