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Church History 8.13.14

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

Summary: Constantine, proclaimed by the army and by God, followed his father's piety, and Licinius was then made emperor by common vote.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:371–372

τούτου παῖς Κωνσταντῖνος εὐθὺς ἀρχόμενος, βασιλεὺς τελεώτατος καὶ σεβαστός πρὸς τῶν στρατοπέδων, καὶ ἔτι πολὺ τούτων πρότερον πρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ παμβασιλέως θεοῦ ἀναγορευθεὶς, ζηλωτὴν ἑαυτὸν τῆς πατρικῆς περὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον λόγον εὐσεβείας κατεστήσατο. καὶ οὗτος μὲν τοιοῦτος. Λικίννιος δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑπὸ κοινῆς ψήφου τῶν κρατούντων αὐτοκράτωρ καὶ σεβαστὸς ἀναπέφηνε.

English · Claude translation

His son Constantine, from the very beginning proclaimed most perfect emperor and Augustus by the armies, and long before this by God himself, the King of all, made himself an imitator of his father's piety toward our faith. Such was he. After these, Licinius was declared emperor and Augustus by common vote of the rulers.

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Source
Dindorf 4:371–372 · 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)

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  • Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): τοι- οὗτος → τοιοῦτος.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/14/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/14/).

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