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Church History 4.8.2

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted) dates himself by mentioning the recent deification of Hadrian's favourite Antinous.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:144

ἐν πέντε δ οὖν συγγράμμασιν οὗτος τὴν ἀπλανῆ παράδοσιν του ἀποστολικοῦ κηρύγματος ἁπλουστάτῃ συντάξει γραφῆς ὑπομνηματισάμενος, καθʼ ὃν ἐγνωρίζετο σημαίνει χρόνον, περὶ τῶν ἀρχῆθεν ἱδρυσάντων τὰ εἴδωλα οὕτω πως γράφων “ οἷς καινοτάφια καὶ ναοὺς ἐποίη- “ σαν ὡς μέχρι νῦν, ὧν ἐστι καὶ Ἀντίνοος, δοῦλος “ Ἀδριανοῦ Καίσαρος, οὗ καὶ ἀγὼν ἄγεται Ἀντινό- “ειος, ἐφʼ ἡμῶν γενόμενος. καὶ γὰρ καὶ πόλιν ἔκτι- “ σεν ἐπώνυμον Ἀντινόου καὶ προφήτας.’’

English · Claude translation

In five books, recording in the simplest style of writing the unerring tradition of the apostolic preaching, he indicates the time at which he was known, writing thus about those who first set up idols: “To whom they made cenotaphs and temples, as to this day; among whom is Antinous too, a slave of Hadrian Caesar, in whose honour the Antinoian games are held, who lived in our own time. For he also founded a city named after Antinous, and prophets.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:144 · 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
  • Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

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  • Quotation from Hegesippus, Memoirs.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/2/).

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