Church History 4.15.45

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): Polycarp was the twelfth martyr at Smyrna, yet above all remembered everywhere.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:162

τοιαῦτα τὰ κατὰ τὸν μακάριον Πολύκαρ- “πον, σὺν τοῖς ἀπὸ Φιλαδελφείας δωδέκατον ἐν “Σμύρνῃ μαρτυρήσαντα, ὃς μόνος ὑπὸ πάντων μᾶλ- “λον μνημονεύεται, ὡς καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐν παντὶ “τόπῳ λαλεῖσθαι.”

English · Claude translation

Such are the things concerning the blessed Polycarp, who, with those from Philadelphia, was the twelfth to be martyred in Smyrna, and who alone is remembered by all more than the others, so that he is spoken of everywhere even by the Gentiles.”

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Dindorf 4:162 · 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. 19.1 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 19.1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.45 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/45/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.45 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/45/).

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