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Church History 3.6.15

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): corpses were thrown into the ravines, and Titus, seeing them, called God to witness that it was not his doing.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:92–93

οἶ δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου θησαυροῦ τοὺς νεκροὺς “θάπτειν ἐκέλευον, τὴν ὀσμὴν οὐ φέροντες· ἔπειθʼ “ὡς οὐ δοήρκουν, ἀπὸ τῶν τειχῶν ἐρρίπτουν εἰς τὰς, φάραγγας. περιιὼν δὲ ταύτας ὁ Τίτος ὡς ἐθεάσατο πεπλησμένας τῶν νεκρῶν, καὶ βαθὺν ἰχῶρα μυδώντων τὸν ὑπορρέοντα τῶν σωμάτων, ἐστέναξέ τε καὶ τὰς χεῖρας ἀνατείνας κατεμαρτύρατο τὸν θεὸν, ὡς “οὐκ εἴη τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ.”

English · Claude translation

These at first ordered the dead to be buried at the public expense, unable to bear the stench; then, when they were not sufficient, they threw them from the walls into the ravines. When Titus, going round, saw these filled with the dead, and the thick putrid matter oozing from the bodies, he groaned, and lifting up his hands called God to witness that this was not his doing.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:92–93 · 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, J.W. 5.518–519 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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  • Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 5.518–519.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/15/).

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