Church History 9.8.12

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

Summary: Famine and plague wiped out whole families, and two or three bodies were carried out together.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:431–432

τοῦτον δὴ τὸν τρόπον δυσὶν ὅπλοις τοῖς προδεδηλωμένοις λοιμοῦ τε ὁμοῦ καὶ λιμοῦ στρατεύσας ὁ θάνατος ὅλας ἐν ὀλίγῳ γενεὰς ἐνεμήθη, ὡς ὁρᾶν ἤδη δυεῖν καὶ τριῶν σώματα νεκρῶν ὑπὸ μίαν ἐκφορὰν προκομιζόμενα.

English · Claude translation

In this way death, campaigning with the two weapons already mentioned, pestilence and famine together, devoured whole families in a short time, so that one could see the bodies of two or three dead carried out in a single funeral procession.

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Source: Dindorf 4:431–432 · 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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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/12/).

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