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Church History 1.8.6

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted) lists Herod's fever, craving, ulcers, and swollen feet.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:30

πῦρ μὲν γὰ “ μαλακὸν ἦν, οὐχ ὧδε πολλὴν ἀποσημαῖνον τοῖς ἐπα φωμἐνοις τὴν φλόγωσιν, ὅσην τοῖς ἐντὸς προσετίθει “ τὴν κάκωσιν, ἐπιθυμία δὲ δεινὴ τοῦ δέξασθαί τι, οὐδὲ “ ἦν μὴ οὐχ ὑπουργεῖν, καὶ ἕλκωσις τῶν τε ἐντέρων, “ καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ κώλου δειναὶ ἀλγηδόνες, καὶ φλέγμα “ ὑγρὸν περὶ τοὺς πόδας καὶ διαυγές.

English · Claude translation

For there was a slow fire, not showing so much inflammation to those who touched him as it added affliction within; a terrible craving to take something, which it was impossible not to satisfy; ulceration of the bowels, and especially terrible pains of the colon; and a moist and transparent swelling about the feet.

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Source
Dindorf 4:30 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, Ant. 17.169 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 17.169.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/8/6/).

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