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Church History 4.8.3

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

Summary: Justin (quoted) also mentions the recent cult of Antinous.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:144–145

κατʼ αὐτὸν δὲ καὶ Ἰουστῖνος, γνήσιος τῆς ἀληθοῦς φιλο- σοφίας ἐραστὴς, ἔτι τε τοῖς παρʼ Ἕλλησιν ἀσκούμενος ἐνδιέτριβε λόγοις. σημαίνει δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τουτονὶ τὸν χρόνον, ἐν τῇ πρὸς ’Αντωνῖνον ἀπολογίᾳ ὧδε γράφων “ οὐκ ἄτοπον δὲ ἐπιμνησθῆναι ἐν τούτοις ἡγούμεθα καὶ Ἀντινόου τοῦ νῦν γενομένου, ὃν καὶ “ ἅπαντες ὡς θεὸν διὰ φόβον σέβειν ὥρμηντο, ἐπι- “ στάμενοι τίς τε ἦν καὶ πόθεν ὑπῆρχεν.”

English · Claude translation

At the same time Justin too, a genuine lover of the true philosophy, was still occupied with the learning of the Greeks. He too indicates this time, writing thus in his Apology to Antoninus: “We think it not out of place to mention here also Antinous, who lived recently, whom all were eager to worship as a god through fear, though they knew who he was and where he came from.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:144–145 · 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, 1 Apol. 29 (First Apology) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Justin, 1 Apol. 29.4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/3/).

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