Church History 9.1.6

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

Summary: The governors are to tell local officials to take no further action against Christians.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:420

ἐγγράψαι τοιγαροῦν πρὸς τοὺς ‟λογιστὰς καὶ τοὺς στρατηγοὺς καὶ τοὺς πραιπωσί- ‟τους τοῦ πάγου ἑκάστης πόλεως ἡ σὴ ἐπιστρέφεια “ὀφείλει, ἵνα γνοῖεν περαιτέρω αὐτοῖς τούτου γράμματος φροντίδα ποιεῖσθαι μὴ προσήκειν.”

English · Claude translation

Your diligence ought therefore to write to the curators, the magistrates, and the overseers of the district of each city, so that they may know that it is not fitting for them to take further concern about this matter.”

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:420 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

The officials are the curatores, the duoviri or magistrates (στρατηγοί), and the praepositi pagi.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/6/).

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