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Church History 9.1.10

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

Summary: Freed confessors returned home from the mines through the cities with great joy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:421

εἶτα δὲ καὶ οἱ γενναῖοι τῆς θεοσεβείας ἀθληταὶ, τῆς εἰς τὰ μέταλλα κακοπαθείας ἐλευθερούμενοι, ἐπὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ἐστέλλοντο, γαῦροι καὶ φαιδροὶ διὰ πάσης ἰόντες πόλεως, εὐφροσύνης τε ἀλέκτου καὶ ἣν οὐδὲ λόγῳ δυνατὸν ἑρμηνεῦσαι παρρησίας ἔμπλεοι.

English · Claude translation

Then the noble athletes of godliness, set free from their hardships in the mines, set out for their own homes, going through every city proud and radiant, full of unspeakable joy and of a boldness that no words can express.

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Source
Dindorf 4:421 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/10/).

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