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Church History 8.13.2

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

Summary: Lucian, presbyter of Antioch, made a defense before the emperor at Nicomedia and died a martyr.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:368–369

τῶν δʼ ἐπʼ Ἀντιοχείας μαρτύρων τὸν πάντα βίον ἄριστος πρεσβύτερος τῆς αὐτόθι παροικίας Λουκιανὸς, ἐν τῇ Νικομηδείᾳ καὶ αὐτὸς, βασιλέως ἐπιπαρόντος, τὴν οὐράνιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ βασιλείαν λόγῳ πρότερον διʼ ἀπολογίας, εἶτα δὲ καὶ ἔργοις ἀνακηρύξας.

English · Claude translation

Of the martyrs of Antioch, Lucian, a presbyter of that diocese, excellent throughout his life, who at Nicomedia too, in the presence of the emperor, proclaimed the heavenly kingdom of Christ, first in word through an apology and then also in deeds.

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Source
Dindorf 4:368–369 · 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, Church office

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): ἐπι- παρόντος → ἐπιπαρόντος.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/2/).

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