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Church History 2.10.8

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): the people prayed in sackcloth for the dying king, who wept at the sight.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:58

μετὰ σπουδῆς οὖν εἰς τὸ βασίλειον “ ἐκομίσθη, καὶ διῆξε λόγος εἰς πάντας, ὡς ἔχοι τοῦ “τεθνάναι παντάπασι μετʼ ὀλίγον. ἡ πληθὺς δʼ αὐ- “ τίκα σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ παισὶν ἐπὶ σάκκον καθεσθεῖσα ‘ τῷ πατρίῳ νόμῳ τὸν θεὸν ἱκέτευον ὑπὲρ τοῦ βασιλέως, οἰμωγῆς τε πάντʼ ἦν ἀνάπλεα καὶ θρήνων. ‘·ἐν ὑψηλῷ δʼ ὁ βασιλεὺς δωματίῳ κατακείμενος καὶ κάτω βλέπων αὐτοὺς πρηνεῖς προσπίπτοντας ἄδα “ κρυς οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἔμενεν.

English · Claude translation

So he was carried hastily to the palace, and the report went round to all that he would certainly die before long. And at once the multitude, with their wives and children, sitting in sackcloth according to their ancestral law, prayed to God for the king, and everything was full of lamentation and wailing. The king, lying in a high chamber and looking down on them falling prostrate, could not himself remain without tears.

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Source
Dindorf 4:58 · 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. 19.349 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, Ant. 19.349.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/10/8/).

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