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Church History 8.13.12

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

Summary: Constantius, a gentle ruler friendly to Christians, died and left his son Constantine as emperor, and was deified by the pagans.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:371

χρόνου δʼ οὐ πλείστου μεταξὺ γενομένου βασιλεὺς Κωνστάντιος, τὸν πάντα βίον πραότατα καὶ τοῖς ὑπηκόοις εὐνοικώτατα, τῷ τε θείῳ λόγῳ προσφιλέστατα διαθέμενος, παῖδα γνήσιον Κωνσταντῖνον αὐτοκράτορα καὶ σεβαστὸν ἀνθʼ ἑαυτοῦ καταλιπὼν, κοινῷ φύσεως νόμῳ τελευτᾷ τὸν βίον, πρῶτός τε ἐν θεοῖς ἀνηγορεύετο παρʼ αὐτοῖς, ἁπάσης μετὰ θάνατον, ὅση βασιλεῖ τις ἂν ὠφείλετο, τιμῆς ἠξιωμένος, χρηστότατος καὶ ἠπιώτατος βασιλέων,

English · Claude translation

Not long afterward the emperor Constantius, who throughout his life had been most gentle, most kindly toward his subjects, and most friendly to the divine word, died by the common law of nature, leaving his own son Constantine as emperor and Augustus in his place. He was the first to be proclaimed among the gods by them, being granted after death every honor that could be owed to an emperor, the kindest and mildest of emperors,

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Source
Dindorf 4:371 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • Constantius Chlorus died at York in 306.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/12/).

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