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Church History 3.6.25

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): she killed, roasted, and half ate her son, then showed the rest to the rebels.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:95

καὶ ταῦθʼ ἅμα κτείνει τὸν υἱόν. ἔπειτʼ ὀπτήσασα τὸ μὲν ἥμισυ κατεσθίει, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν κατακαλύψασα ἐφύλαττεν. εὐθέως δʼ δἱ στασιασταὶ παρῆσαν, καὶ τῆς ἀθεμίτου κνίσης σπάσαντες ἠπείλουν, εἰ μὴ δείξειε τὸ παρασκευασθὲν, ἀποσφάξειν αὐτὴν εὐθέως. ἡ δὲ καὶ μοῖραν αὐτοῖς εἰποῦσα καλὴν τετηρηκέναι τὰ λείψανα τοῦ τέκνου διανεκάλυψεν.

English · Claude translation

And with these words she killed her son. Then, having roasted him, she ate half, and covering the rest, kept it. At once the rebels were there, and smelling the unholy odour threatened to slaughter her at once unless she showed what she had prepared. She said that she had kept a fine portion for them too, and uncovered the remains of her child.

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Source
Dindorf 4:95 · 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. 6.208 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 6.208.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/25/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/25/).

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