Church History 9.10.3

Summary: In battle God abandoned Maximin and gave Licinius the victory.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:440

καὶ δὴ συμβαλὼν εἰς χεῖρας ἔρημος τῆς ἐκ θεοῦ καθίσταται ἐπισκοπῆς, Λικιννίῳ τῆς νίκης ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ πάντων ἑνὸς καὶ μόνου θεοῦ πρυτανευθείσης.

And when he joined battle he found himself bereft of God's oversight, the victory being granted to Licinius by the one and only God of all.

Source: Dindorf 4:440 · 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)

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/3/).