Church History 8.17.5

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

Summary: The edict continues with the titles of Licinius and greets the provincials.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:379

καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ “Οὐαλέριος Λικιννιανὸς, εὐσεβὴς, εὐτυχὴς, ἀνίκη- “τος, σεβαστὸς, ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος, δημαρχικῆς ἐξου- “σίας τὸ τέταρτον, αὐτοκράτωρ τὸ τρίτον, ὕπατος, ‘πατὴρ πατρίδος, ἀνθύπατος, ἐπαρχιώταις ἰδίοις “χαίρειν.

English · Claude translation

and the Emperor Caesar Valerius Licinianus, Pious, Fortunate, Invincible, Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, holding the tribunician power for the fourth time, acclaimed imperator for the third time, consul, father of the fatherland, proconsul: to the people of their provinces, greeting.

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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)

Notes

Translation notes

Maximin Daia's name is absent from the heading as preserved here; Eusebius probably removed it after his fall.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/5/).

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