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Church History 8.10.6

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

Summary: The governor kept the martyrs under torture all day, ordering them dragged away when near death.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:363

καὶ τοῦθʼ ὑπέμενον, οὐκ “ἐφʼ ὅσον προσδιελέγετο οὐδʼ αὐτοῖς ἐσχόλαζεν ὁ “ἡγεμὼν, ἀλλὰ μονονουχὶ διʼ ὅλης τῆς ἡμέρας. ὅτε “γὰρ καὶ ἐφʼ ἑτέρους μετέβαινε, τοῖς προτέροις κα- “τελίμπανεν ἐφεδρεύειν τοὺς τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ αὐτοῦ ὑπη- “ρετουμένους, εἴ πού τις ἡττηθεὶς τῶν βασάνων ‘ἐνδιδόναι ἐδόκει, ἀφειδῶς δὲ κελεύων καὶ τοῖς ‘δεσμοῖς προσιέναι, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ψυχορραγοῦν- “τας αὐτοὺς κατατιθεμένους εἰς τὴν γῆν ἕλκεσθαι· “

English · Claude translation

“And they endured this not only while the governor was conversing with them and occupied with them, but almost the whole day long. For when he passed on to others, he left those in the service of his authority to watch the first, in case anyone, overcome by the tortures, seemed to give way; and he ordered them to apply the bonds without mercy, and afterward, when they were at the point of death, to take them down and drag them along the ground.

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Source
Dindorf 4:363 · 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, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Phileas continues.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/10/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/10/6/).

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