Church History 4.15.27

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): the games being over, the crowd demanded that Polycarp be burned alive.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:159

ταῦτα λέγοντες ἐπεβόων καὶ ἠρώτων τὸν “ἀσιάρχην Φίλιππον, ἵνα ἐπαφῇ τῷ Πολυκάρπῳ λέ- “οντα. ὁ δὲ ἔφη μὴ εἶναι ἐξὸν αὐτῷ, ἐπειδὴ πεπλη- “ρώκει τὰ κυνηγέσια. τότε ἔδοξεν αὐτοῖς ὁμοθυμα- “δὸν ἐπιβοῆσαι, ὥστε ζῶντα τὸν Πολύκαρπον κατα- “καῦσαι.

English · Claude translation

Saying this they shouted and asked the Asiarch Philip to let loose a lion on Polycarp. But he said it was not lawful for him, since he had closed the animal hunts. Then they thought fit to shout with one accord that Polycarp should be burned alive.

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Source

Dindorf 4:159 · 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

Mart. Pol. 12.2–3 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 12.2–3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.27 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/27/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.27 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/27/).

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