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Church History 9.10.2

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

Summary: Maximin broke his treaty with Licinius and marched to war trusting in demons and his huge army.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:439–440

ἐπιτείνας δὲ εἰς ἀπόνοιαν τὰ τῆς μανίας, συνθήκας ἃς πρὸς Λικίννιον πεποίητο παρασπονδήσας, πόλεμον ἄσπονδον αἴρεται· εἶτʼ ἐν βραχεῖ τὰ πάντα κυκήσας, πᾶσάν τε πόλιν ἐκταράξας, καὶ πᾶν στρατόπεδον μυριάδων τὸ πλῆθος ἀνηρίθμων συναγαγὼν, ἔξεισιν εἰς μάχην αὐτῷ παραταξάμενος, δαιμόνων ἐλπίσιν ὧν δὴ ᾤετο θεῶν καὶ ταῖς τῶν ὁπλιτῶν μυριάσι τὴν ψυχὴν ἐπηρμένος.

English · Claude translation

Pushing his madness to folly, he broke the treaty he had made with Licinius and began a war without truce. Then, having thrown everything into confusion in a short time, disturbed every city, and gathered his whole army of countless tens of thousands, he went out to battle drawn up against him, his soul lifted up by hopes in demons whom he thought gods and by his myriads of soldiers.

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Source
Dindorf 4:439–440 · 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)

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  • Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): ἐπι- τείνας → ἐπιτείνας.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/2/).

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