Church History 4.26.9

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

Summary: Melito (quoted): only Nero and Domitian, misled by the malicious, slandered the faith.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:178

μόνοι πάντων ἀναπεισθέντες ὑπο “τινων βασκάνων ἀνθρώπων τὸν καθʼ ἡμὰς ἐν διαβολῇ “καταστῆσαι λόγον ἠθέλησαν Νέρων καὶ Δομετιανὸς, “ἀφʼ ὧν καὶ τὸ τῆς συκοφαντίας ἀλόγῳ συνηθείᾳ “περὶ τοὺς τοιούτους ῥυῆναι συμβέβηκε ψεῦδος. “

English · Claude translation

Alone of all, persuaded by certain malicious men, Nero and Domitian wished to bring our doctrine into disrepute, and from them it has come about that the falsehood of calumny about such people has flowed by unreasonable custom.

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Source

Dindorf 4:178 · 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

Melito of Sardis, Melito Apology (Melito of Sardis (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Melito, Apology.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/9/).

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