Church History 8.14.4

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

Summary: He killed innumerable senators on false charges to seize their wealth.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:373

συγκλητικῶν γε μὴν φόνος ὁπόσος διʼ ἐπιβουλὴν ἐνηργεῖτο τῆς οὐσίας οὐδʼ ἐξαριθμήσασθαι δυνατὸν ἄλλοτε ἄλλαις πεπλασμέναις αἰτίαις μυρίων ἀναιρουμένων.

English · Claude translation

As for the slaughter of senators carried out to get their property, it is impossible even to count it, since countless were put to death on one invented charge or another.

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Source: Dindorf 4:373 · 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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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/14/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/14/4/).

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