Church History 3.13.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Titus succeeded Vespasian; Linus of Rome was succeeded by Anencletus; Domitian followed Titus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:104

Ἐπὶ δέκα δὲ τὸν Οὐεσπασιανὸν ἔτεσι βα σιλεύσαντα αὐτοκράτωρ Τίτος ὁ παῖς διαδέχεται, ου κατὰ δεύτερον ἔτος τῆς βασιλείας Λίνος ἐπίσκοπο τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίας δυοκαίδεκα τὴν λειτουργία ἐνιαυτοῖς κατασχὼν Ἀνεγκλήτῳ ταύτην παραδίδωσι Τίτον δὲ Δομετιανὸς ἀδελφὸς διαδέχεται, δύο ἔτεο καὶ μησὶ τοῖς ἴσοις βασιλεύσαντα.

English · Claude translation

After Vespasian had reigned ten years, the emperor Titus his son succeeded him; in the second year of his reign Linus, bishop of the church of the Romans, having held the ministry twelve years, handed it over to Anencletus. Titus was succeeded by his brother Domitian, after reigning two years and as many months.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:104 · 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)

Topics

Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/13/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/13/1/).