Church History 9.10.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:441

“Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Γάιος Οὐαλέριος Μα- “ξιμῖνος, Γερμανικὸς, Σαρματικὸς, εὐσεβὴς, εὐτυ- “χὴς, ἀνίκητος, σεβαστός. κατὰ πάντα τρόπον ἡμὰς “διηνεκῶς τῶν ἐπαρχιωτῶν τῶν ἡμετέρων τοῦ χρη— “σίμου προνοεῖσθαι, καὶ ταῦτα αὐτοῖς βούλεσθαι “παρέχειν, οἷς τὰ λυσιτελῆ πάντων μάλιστα κατορ- ‘θοῦται, καὶ ὅσα τῆς λυσιτελείας καὶ τῆς χρησιμό- ‘τητός ἐστι τῆς κοινῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ ὁποῖα πρὸς τὴν ‘δημοσίαν λυσιτέλειαν ἁρμόζει, καὶ ταῖς ἑκάστων ‘διανοίαις προσφιλῆ τυγχάνει, οὐδένα ἀγνοεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἕκαστον ἀνατρέχειν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ τὸ γινόμενον, γινώ- ‘σκειν τε ἕκαστον τόν ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, “δῆλον εἶναι πιστεύομεν.

English · Claude translation

[Edict of Maximin:] “The Emperor Caesar Gaius Valerius Maximinus, Germanicus, Sarmaticus, Pious, Fortunate, Invincible, Augustus. We believe it is plain that no one is unaware, but that each one, recalling what has happened, knows and holds it in mind, that we have continually taken thought in every way for the advantage of our provincials, and have wished to provide them with those things by which the welfare of all is best secured, and whatever belongs to their common benefit and advantage, and whatever suits the public good and is agreeable to the minds of each.

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Source

Dindorf 4:441 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

The edict dates from 313.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray raised dot in the digital text): Γάι·ος → Γάιος.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/7/).