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Church History 9.9.1

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

Summary: God raised up Constantine and Licinius against the two tyrants: Maxentius fell to Constantine at Rome, and Maximin soon after to Licinius.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:433

. Οὕτω δὴ ὃν βασιλέα ἐκ βασιλέως, εὐσεβῆ τε ἐξ εὐσεβεστάτου καὶ πάντα σωφρονεστάτου γεγονέναι προειρήκαμεν, Λικιννίου ἴου τε τοῦ μετʼ αὐτὸν, συνέσει καὶ εὐσεβείᾳ τετιμημένων, πρὸς τοῦ παμβασιλέως θεοῦ τε τῶν ὅλων καὶ σωτῆρος δύο θεοφιλῶν κατὰ τῶν δύο δυσσεβεστάτων τυράννων ἀνεγηγερμένων, πολέμου τε νόμῳ παραταξαμένων, θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος αὐτοῖς, παραδοξότατα πίπτει μὲν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ὑπὸ Κωνσταντίνου Μαξέντιος, ὁ δʼ ἐπʼ ἀνατολῆς οὐ πολὺν ἐπιζήσας ἐκείνῳ χρόνον αἰσχίστῳ καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπὸ Λικιννίου, οὔπω μανέντος τότε, καταστρέφει θανάτῳ.

English · Claude translation

Thus, when Constantine, whom we have already described as an emperor born of an emperor, a pious son of a most pious and in all things most prudent father, and Licinius after him, both honored for understanding and piety, two men dear to God, had been raised up by God, the King of all and Savior of the universe, against the two most impious tyrants, and had drawn up for war according to the law of war with God as their ally, Maxentius fell at Rome at the hands of Constantine in a most extraordinary way, and the tyrant of the East, surviving him not long, himself also perished by a most shameful death at the hands of Licinius, who had not yet gone mad.

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Source
Dindorf 4:433 · 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 digital text lacks Constantine's name here and has a stray ἴου after Λικιννίου; the sense is clear from the context.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/9/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/9/1/).

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