Church History 8.13.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:369

ἀλλʼ οὗτος μὲν θηρίων βορὰ μεθʼ ἑτέρων ἐπʼ αὐτῆς Ἐμίσης γενόμενος χοροῖς ἀνελήφθη μαρτύρων, τῶν δʼ ἐπʼ Ἀντιοχείας ἄμφω τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον διὰ τῆς εἰς θάνατον ὑπομονῆς ἐδοξασάτην, ὁ μὲν θαλαττίοις παραδοθεὶς βυθοῖς, ὁ ἐπίσκοπος, ὁ δὲ ἰατρῶν ἄριστος Ζηνόβιος ταῖς κατὰ τῶν πλευρῶν ἐπιτεθείσαις αὐτῷ καρτερῶς ἐναποθανὼν βασάνοις.

English · Claude translation

Silvanus became food for wild beasts with others at Emesa itself and was received into the choirs of martyrs; the other two glorified the word of God at Antioch by their endurance unto death: the bishop was given over to the depths of the sea, while Zenobius, the most excellent of physicians, died bravely under the tortures applied to his sides.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:369 · 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

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing capital and breathing on the place name in the digital text): ἐπʼ αὐτῆς ἐμίσης → ἐπʼ αὐτῆς Ἐμίσης.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/4/).