Church History 3.6.4

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

Summary: Josephus (quoted): food was snatched half-raw, the strong seizing it from the weak.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:90

καὶ τράπεζα μὲν “ οὐδαμοῦ παρετίθετο, τοῦ δὲ πυρὸς ἀφέλκοντες ἔτʼ “ὠμὰ τὰ σιτία διήρπαζον. ἐλεεινὴ δʼ ἦν ἡ τροφὴ κʼ “δακρύων ἄξιος ἡ θέα, τῶν μὲν δυνατωτέρων πλέο “νεκτούντων, τῶν δὲ ἀσθενῶν ὀδυρομένων.

English · Claude translation

No table was set anywhere, but they snatched the food from the fire still raw and tore it apart. Pitiful was the food and the sight worthy of tears, the stronger taking more and the weak lamenting.

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Source

Dindorf 4:90 · 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. 5.428–429 (Josephus (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Josephus, J.W. 5.428–429.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/6/4/).

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