Church History 8.12.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:366–367

αἵδε μὲν οὖν ἑαυτάς· ἄλλην δʼ ἐπʼ αὐτῆς Ἀντιοχείας ξυνωρίδα παρθένων τὰ πάντα θεοπρεπῶν καὶ ἀληθῶς ἀδελφῶν, ἐπιδόξων μὲν τὸ γένος, λαμπρῶν δὲ τὸν βίον, νέων τοὺς χρόνους, ὡραίων τὸ σῶμα, σεμνῶν τὴν ψυχὴν, εὐσεβῶν τὸν τρόπον, θαυμαστῶν τὴν σπουδὴν, ὡς ἂν μὴ φερούσης τῆς γῆς τὰ τοιαῦτα βαστάζειν, θαλάττῃ ῥίπτειν ἐκέλευον οἱ τῶν δαιμόνων θεραπευταί. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν παρὰ τοῖσδε.

English · Claude translation

These, then, did it themselves. But another pair of virgins at Antioch itself, godly in every way and truly sisters, illustrious in family, splendid in life, young in years, fair in body, grave in soul, pious in conduct, admirable in zeal, the servants of demons ordered thrown into the sea, as though the earth could not bear to carry such. So much for these.

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Source

Dindorf 4:366–367 · 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

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text; wrong breathing and accent in the digital text): ἐκέλευον οἶ τῶν → ἐκέλευον οἱ τῶν; ταῦτα μὲν οὑν → ταῦτα μὲν οὖν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/12/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/12/5/).