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Church History 4.11.7

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

Summary: Anicetus succeeded Pius at Rome; Hegesippus stayed in Rome from his time until Eleutherus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:149

καὶ κατὰ τὴν ῾Ρωμαίων δὲ πόλιν πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἐνιαυτῷ Πίου μεταλλάξαντος Ἀνίκητος τῶν ἐκεῖσε προΐσταται. καθʼ ὃν Ἡγήσιππος ἱστορεῖ ἑαυτὸν ἐπιδημῆσαι τῇ ῾Ρώμῃ, παραμεῖναί τε αὐτόθι μέχρι τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς Ἐλευθέρου.

English · Claude translation

And in the city of the Romans, when Pius departed in the fifteenth year of his episcopate, Anicetus presided over those there. Hegesippus relates that in his time he himself stayed at Rome and remained there until the episcopate of Eleutherus.

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Source
Dindorf 4:149 · 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
  • Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/11/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/11/7/).

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