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Church History 8.11.2

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

Summary: Adauctus, a high Roman official of Italian family, was martyred while serving as imperial finance minister.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:365

καί τις ἕτερος ῾Ρωμαϊκῆς ἀξίας ἐπειλημμένος, Ἄδαυκτος ὄνομα, γένος τῶν παρʼ Ἰταλοῖς ἐπισήμων, διὰ πάσης διελθὼν ἀνὴρ τῆς παρὰ βασιλεῦσι τιμῆς, ὡς καὶ τὰς καθόλου διοικήσεις τῆς παρʼ αὐτοῖς καλουμένης μαγιστρότητός τε καὶ καθολικότητος ἀμέμπτως διελθεῖν, ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοις διαπρέψας τοῖς ἐν θεοσεβείᾳ κατορθώμασι καὶ ταῖς εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ ὁμολογίαις, τῷ τοῦ μαρτυρίου διαδήματι κατεκοσμήθη, ἐπʼ αὐτῆς τῆς τοῦ καθολικοῦ πράξεως τὸν ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας ὑπομείνας ἀγῶνα.

English · Claude translation

And another, who held Roman rank, Adauctus by name, of a distinguished Italian family, a man who had advanced through every honor under the emperors, so as to have passed blamelessly through the general administrations of what they call the magistracy and the office of finance minister, besides all these being distinguished for his righteous deeds in godliness and for his confessions of the Christ of God, was adorned with the crown of martyrdom, enduring the contest for piety while actually holding the office of finance minister.

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Source
Dindorf 4:365 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Finance minister” renders καθολικός (Latin rationalis).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/11/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/11/2/).

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