Church History 4.15.47

Summary: The martyrdom of Pionius, with his confessions and endurance, is recorded in Eusebius's collection of early martyrdoms.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:162–163

τῶν γε μὴν τότε περιβόητος μάρτυς εἷς τις ἐγνωρίζετο Πιόνιος, οὗ τὰς κατὰ μέρος ὁμολογίας, τήν τε τοῦ λόγου παρρησίαν, καὶ τὰς ὑπὲρ τῆς πίστεως ἐπὶ τοῦ δήμου καὶ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἀπολογίας, διδασκαλικάς τε δημηγορίας, καὶ ἔτι τὰς πρὸς τοὺς ὑποπεπτωκότας τῷ κατὰ τὸν διωγμὸν πειρασμῷ δεξιώσεις, παραμυθίας τε ἃς ἐπὶ τῆς εἱρκτῆς τοῖς παρʼ αὐτὸν εἰσαφικνουμένοις ἀδελφοῖς παρετίθετο, ἅς τε ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑπέμεινε βασάνους τε καὶ τὰς ἐπὶ ταύταις ἀλγηδόνας καθηλώσεις τε, καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τῆς πυρᾶς καρτερίαν, τήν τε ἐφʼ ἅπασι τοῖς παραδόξοις αὐτοῦ τελευτὴν πληρέστατα τῆς περὶ αὐτοῦ γραφῆς περιεχούσης, τοὺς οἷς φίλον ἐπὶ ταύτην ἀναπέμψομεν, τοῖς τῶν ἀρχαίων συναχθεῖσιν ἡμῖν μαρτυρίοις ἐντεταγμένην.

English · Claude translation

Of the famous martyrs of that time one was known named Pionius. His several confessions, the boldness of his speech, his defences of the faith before the people and the rulers, his instructive addresses, and further his kindness to those who had fallen in the trial of the persecution, the encouragements he gave in prison to the brothers who came to him, the tortures he endured besides, and the pains that followed them, the nailing, his endurance on the pyre, and his death after all these marvels, are most fully contained in the writing about him; to it we shall refer those who wish, as it is included in the martyrdoms of the ancients collected by us.

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Dindorf 4:162–163 · 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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Martyrdom

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.47 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/47/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.47 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/47/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:162–163

English · Claude translation

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