Church History 10.9.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:487–488

ἀθρόως δῆτα καὶ λόγου θάττον οἱ μὲν χθὲς καὶ πρὸ ἡμέρας θανάτου πνέοντες καὶ ἀπειλῆς οὐκέτʼ ἦσαν, οὐδὲ μέχρις ὀνόματος μνημονευόμενοι· γραφαί τε αὐτῶν καὶ τιμαὶ τὴν ἀξίαν αἰσχύνην ἀπελάμβανον. καὶ ἃ τοῖς πάλαι δυσσεβέσι τυράννοις ἐνεῖδεν αὐτοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς Λικίννιος, ταῦτα ὁμοίως καὶ αὐτὸς ἔπασχεν, ὅτι μηδʼ αὐτὸς ἐδέξατο παιδείαν, μηδὲ ταῖς τῶν πέλας ἐσωφρονίσθη μάστιξι, τὴν ὁμοίαν δʼ ἐκείνοις τῆς ἀσεβείας μετελθὼν ὁδὸν, ἐπὶ τὸν ἴσον αὐτοῖς ἐνδίκως περιηνέχθη κρημνόν.

English · Claude translation

Suddenly, and quicker than words, those who yesterday and the day before were breathing death and threats were no more, not even remembered by name; their portraits and honors received the disgrace they deserved. And what Licinius had seen with his own eyes happen to the impious tyrants of old, he likewise suffered himself, because he too did not receive instruction nor learn prudence from the scourges of his neighbors, but, following the same path of impiety as they, he was justly carried to the same precipice.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:487–488 · 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)

Scripture

Acts 9:1 · echo, low confidence

Notes

Translation notes

“Breathing death and threats” echoes Acts 9:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letter in the digital text): ἐδέξατο ὢ παιδείαν → ἐδέξατο παιδείαν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/9/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/9/5/).