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Church History 3.7.2

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

Summary: Josephus counts 1,100,000 dead, with the survivors executed, kept for triumph, sent to Egyptian mines, killed in arenas, or sold, ninety thousand in all.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:96

συναγαγὼν δὲ πάντα τὸν τῶν ἀνῃρημένων ἀριθμὸν ὁ συγγραφεὺς λιμῷ καὶ ξίφει μυριάδας ἑκατὸν καὶ δέκα διαφθαρῆναί φησι, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς στασιώδεις καὶ λῃστρικοὺς, ὑπʼ ἀλλήλων μετὰ τὴν ἅλωσιν ἐνδεικνυμένους, ἀνῃρῆσθαι, τῶν δὲ νέων τοὺς ὑψηλοτάτους καὶ κάλλει σώματος διαφέροντας τετηρῆσθαι θριάμβῳ, τοῦ δὲ λοιποῦ πλήθους τοὺς ὑπὲρ ἑπτακαίδεκα ἔτη δεσμίους εἰς τὰ κατʼ Αἴγυπτον ἔργα παραπεμφθῆναι, πλείους δὲ εἰς τὰς ἐπαρχίας διανενεμῆσθαι φθαρησομένους ἐν τοῖς θεάτροις σιδήρῳ καὶ θηρίοις, τοὺς δʼ ἐντὸς ἑπτακαίδεκα ἐτῶν αἰχμαλώτους ἀχθέντας διαπεπρᾶσθαι, τούτων δὲ μόνων τὸν ἀριθμὸν εἰς ἐννέα μυριάδας ἀνδρῶν συναχθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

The historian, adding up the whole number of those killed, says that one million one hundred thousand perished by famine and sword; that the rest, the seditious and the brigands, informing on one another after the capture, were put to death; that of the young men the tallest and most handsome were kept for the triumph; that of the rest of the multitude those over seventeen years old were sent in chains to the works in Egypt, while more were distributed among the provinces to be destroyed in the theatres by the sword and by wild beasts; and that those under seventeen were taken captive and sold, and that of these alone the number came to ninety thousand men.

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Source
Dindorf 4:96 · 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. 6.414–420 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence

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  • The source is Josephus, J.W. 6.414–420.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/7/2/).

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