Church History 3.5.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: After Nero, Galba, and Otho, Vespasian was proclaimed emperor in Judea and left the war to Titus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:87

Μετὰ Νέρωνα δέκα πρὸς τρισὶν ἔτεσι τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπικρατήσαντα τῶν ἀμφὶ Γάλβαν καὶ Ὄθωνα ἐνιαυτὸν ἐπὶ μησὶν ἕξ διαγενομένων Οὐεσπασιανὸς, ταῖς κατὰ Ἰουδαίων παρατὰξεσι λαμπρυνόμενος, βασιλεὺς ἐπʼ αὐτῆς ἀναδείκνυται τῆς Ἰουδαίας, αὐτοκράτωρ πρὸς τῶν αὐτόθι στρατοπέδων ἀναγορευθείς. τὴν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης οὖν αὐτίκα στειλάμενος Τίτῳ τῷ παιδὶ τὸν κατὰ Ἰουδαίων ἐγχειρίζει πόλεμον.

English · Claude translation

After Nero had held power for thirteen years, and the reigns of Galba and Otho had lasted a year and six months, Vespasian, distinguished in the campaigns against the Jews, was proclaimed emperor in Judea itself, being hailed as imperator by the armies there. Setting out at once for Rome, he entrusted the war against the Jews to his son Titus.

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Source

Dindorf 4:87 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/5/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/5/1/).