Church History 8.15.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: During the ten years of persecution the rulers fought each other; seafarers were tortured as suspected spies and killed.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:377

Διὰ παντός γέ τοι τοῦ κατὰ τὸν διωγμὸν δεκαέτους χρόνου τῶν εἰς ἐπιβουλὴν καὶ πόλεμον τὸν κατʼ ἀλλήλων οὐδὲν αὐτοὺς διαλέλοιπεν. ἄπλωτα μὲν γὰρ τὰ κατὰ θάλατταν ἦν, οὐδʼ ἐξῆν ποθὲν καταπλεύσαντας μὴ οὐχὶ πάσαις αἰκίαις ὑπάγεσθαι, στρεβλουμένους καὶ τὰς πλευρὰς καταξαινομένους, βασάνοις τε παντοίαις, μὴ ἄρα παρὰ τῶν διʼ ἐναντίας ἐχθρῶν ἥκοιεν, ἀνακρινομένους, καὶ τέλος σταυροῖς ἢ τῇ διὰ πυρὸς ὑπαγομένους κολάσει.

English · Claude translation

Throughout the whole ten years of the persecution they never stopped plotting and making war against one another. The sea could not be sailed, and those who put in from anywhere could not escape every kind of abuse: they were racked, their sides were torn, they were examined under all sorts of tortures in case they had come from the enemy on the other side, and finally they were subjected to crucifixion or punishment by fire.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:377 · 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

Persecution

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/15/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/15/1/).