Church History 8.3.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:352–353

ὅμως δʼ οὖν καὶ οἵδε πολυχειρίᾳ τῆς ἐπὶ τοῦτο τεταγμένης στρατιωτικῆς παρατάξεως κατὰ στόματος παιόμενοι καὶ κατασιγαζόμενοι, κατά τε προσώπου καὶ παρειῶν τυπτόμενοι μετὰ βίας ἐξωθοῦντο. οὕτως ἐξ ἅπαντος οἱ τῆς θεοσεβείας ἐχθροὶ τὸ δοκεῖν ἠνυκέναι περὶ πολλοῦ ἐτίθεντο. ἀλλʼ οὐ καὶ κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῖς μαρτύρων ταῦτα προυχώρει, ὧν εἰς ἀκριβῆ διήγησιν τίς ἄν ἡμῖν ἐξαρκέσειε λόγος;

English · Claude translation

Yet these too were struck on the mouth and silenced by the many hands of the troop of soldiers assigned to this, and were beaten on the face and cheeks and thrust out by force. So much did the enemies of piety value appearing, by any means, to have succeeded. But these things did not go their way against the holy martyrs; and what account would suffice us for an exact narration of them?

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:352–353 · 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, Martyrdom

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text; wrong breathing and accent in the digital text): ἐξω- θοῦντο → ἐξωθοῦντο; ἐξ ἅπαντος οἶ τῆς → ἐξ ἅπαντος οἱ τῆς.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/3/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/3/4/).