Church History 4.2.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The Greeks killed Alexandria's Jews; the Cyrenean Jews under Lucuas ravaged Egypt until Trajan sent Marcius Turbo.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:137

καὶ δὴ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ συμβολῇ ἐπικρατῆσαι αὐτοὺς συνέβη τῶν Ἑλλήνων, οἳ καὶ καταφυγόντες εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν τοὺς ἐν τῇ πόλει Ἰουδαίους ἐζώγρησάν τε καὶ ἀπέκτειναν. τῆς δὲ παρὰ τούτων συμμαχίας ἀποτυχόντες οἱ κατὰ Κυρήνην, τὴν χώραν τῆς Αἰγύπτου λεηλατοῦντες καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτῆ̣ νομοὺς φθείροντες διετέλουν, ἡγουμένου αὐτῶν Λουκούα· ἐφʼ οὓς ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ ἔπεμψε Μάρκιον Τούρβωνα σὺν δυνάμει πεζῇ τε καὶ ναυτικῇ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἱππικῇ.

English · Claude translation

In the first engagement they happened to overcome the Greeks, who fled to Alexandria and captured and killed the Jews in the city. The Jews of Cyrene, deprived of help from them, went on plundering the country of Egypt and ravaging its districts, under their leader Lucuas; against them the emperor sent Marcius Turbo with land and naval forces and cavalry as well.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:137 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/2/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/2/3/).