Church History 8.17.4

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

Summary: The edict continues with the titles of Constantine.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:379

καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Φλάουιος Κωνσταντῖνος, εὐσεβὴς, εὐτυχὴς, ἀνίκητος, σεβαστὸς, ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος, δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας “τὸ πέμπτον, αὐτοκράτωρ τὸ πέμπτον, ὕπατος, πατὴρ ‘πατρίδος, ἀνθύπατος·

English · Claude translation

and the Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantinus, Pious, Fortunate, Invincible, Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, holding the tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed imperator for the fifth time, consul, father of the fatherland, proconsul;

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Source: Dindorf 4:379 · 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. 8.17.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/4/).

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