Church History 4.17.8

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

Summary: Justin (quoted): the husband then turned on Ptolemaeus, her Christian teacher.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:166

ὁ δὲ ταύτης ποτὲ ἀνὴρ, πρὸς ἐκεί- “νην μὲν μὴ δυνάμενος τὰ νῦν ἔτι λέγειν, πρὸς Πτολεμαῖόν τινα, ὃν Οὐρβίκιος ἐκολάσατο, διδάσκαλον “ ἐκείνης τῶν Χριστιανῶν μαθημάτων γενόμενον, ἐτράπετο διὰ τοῦδε τοῦ τρόπου.

English · Claude translation

And her former husband, being unable to say anything more against her for the present, turned against a certain Ptolemaeus, whom Urbicius punished, who had been her teacher in the Christian teachings, in the following way.

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Source

Dindorf 4:166 · 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

Justin, 2 Apol. 2 (Second Apology) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Justin, 2 Apol. 2.9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.17.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/17/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.17.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/17/8/).

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