Church History 2.10.5

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): flatterers hailed Agrippa as a god.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:57

εὐθὺς δὲ οἱ κόλακες τὰς οὐδὲν ἐκείνῳ “πρὸς ἀγαθοῦ ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν φωνὰς ἀνεβόων, θεὸν προσαγορεύοντες, ‘ εὐμενής τε εἴης ἐπιλέγοντες· εἰ καὶ μέχρι νῦν ὡς ἄνθρωπον ἐφοβήθημεν, ἀλλὰ τοὐντεῦθεν κρείττονά σε θνητῆς τῆς φύσεως ὁμολο- “ γοῦμεν.’

English · Claude translation

And at once his flatterers from various sides raised cries that did him no good, addressing him as a god and adding, ‘Be gracious! If until now we have feared you as a man, from now on we confess you to be more than mortal in nature.’

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Dindorf 4:57 · 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.

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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. 19.345 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 19.345.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/5/).

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