Sophia Scriptura

Church History 8.7.6

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

Summary: In the end the martyrs were killed with the sword and their bodies thrown into the sea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:359

τέλος δὴ οὖν μετὰ τὰς δεινὰς καὶ ποικίλας τούτων προσβολὰς ξίφει κατασφαγέντες οἱ πάντες, ἀντὶ γῆς καὶ τάφων τοῖς θαλαττίοις παραδίδονται κύμασι.

English · Claude translation

At last, after the terrible and varied attacks of these beasts, they were all slaughtered with the sword and, instead of to earth and tombs, were committed to the waves of the sea.

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Source
Dindorf 4:359 · 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
Martyrdom

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing and accent in the digital text): κατασφαγέντες οἶ πάντες → κατασφαγέντες οἱ πάντες.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/7/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/7/6/).

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