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Church History 3.36.7

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

Summary: Ignatius (quoted): chained to ten “leopards,” he fights beasts all the way to Rome.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:128

γράφει δὴ οὖν κατὰ λέξιν “ἀπὸ Συρίας μέχρι ‘Ρώ- ‘μης θηριομαχῶ διὰ γῆς καὶ θαλάσσης, νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας, ἐνδεδεμένος δέκα λεοπάρδοις, ὅ ἐστι στρατιωτικὸν τάγμα, οἳ καὶ εὐεργετούμενοι χείρονες γίνονται. ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἀδικήμασιν αὐτῶν μᾶλλον μαθη- “τεύομαι, ἀλλʼ οὐ παρὰ τοῦτο δεδικαίωμαι.

English · Claude translation

He writes, then, word for word: “From Syria to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and day, bound to ten leopards, that is, a company of soldiers, who become worse even when they are treated well. By their wrongdoings I am becoming more a disciple, but not by this am I justified.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:128 · 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
Extrabiblical texts
  • Ign. Rom. 5.1 (To the Romans) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (3.36.7–9) is Ign. Rom. 5.1–3. The last clause echoes 1 Cor 4:4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/7/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/7/).

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