Church History 8.12.4

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

Summary: On the road the mother and daughters asked the guards for privacy and threw themselves into a river.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:366

κἄπειτα ὁμοῦ τὴν γνώμην συνθέμεναι, τά τε σώματα περιστείλασαι κοσμίως τοῖς περιβλήμασιν, ἐπʼ αὐτῆς μέσης γενόμεναι τῆς ὁδοῦ, βραχύ τι τοὺς φύλακας εἰς ἀναχώρησιν ὑποπαραιτησάμεναι, ἐπὶ παραρρέοντα ποταμὸν ἑαυτὰς ἠκόντισαν.

English · Claude translation

And then, all agreeing in their resolve and decently wrapping their bodies in their garments, when they were in the middle of the road, they asked the guards for a little time to withdraw and threw themselves into the river flowing by.

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Source: Dindorf 4:366 · 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. 8.12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/12/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/12/4/).

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