Church History 8.9.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Examples were Philoromus, a high imperial official at Alexandria, and Phileas, bishop of Thmuis, a learned philosopher.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:361

οἷος Φιλόρωμος ἦν, ἀρχήν τινα οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν τῆς κατʼ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν βασιλικῆς διοικήσεως ἐγκεχειρισμένος, ὃς μετὰ τοῦ ἀξιώματος καὶ τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς τιμῆς ὑπὸ στρατιώταις δορυφορούμενος ἑκάστης ἀνεκρίνετο ἡμέρας· Φιλέας τε τῆς Θμουιτῶν ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπος, διαπρέψας ἀνὴρ ταῖς κατὰ τὴν πατρίδα πολιτείαις τε καὶ λειτουργίαις, ἔν τε τοῖς κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν λόγοις·

English · Claude translation

such as Philoromus, who had been entrusted with no ordinary office in the imperial administration at Alexandria, and who, with his dignity and Roman honor, attended by a bodyguard of soldiers, was examined every day; and Phileas, bishop of the church of the Thmuites, a man distinguished for his public services and offices in his native city and for his learning in philosophy.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:361 · 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, Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.9.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/9/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.9.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/9/7/).