Church History 5.1.51

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

Summary: Alexander and Attalus died after every torture, Alexander silently praying.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:195

οἱ· καὶ διὰ πάντων διελθόντες “ἐν τῷ ἀμφιθεάτρῳ τῶν πρὸς κόλασιν ἐξηυρημένων ὀργάνων, καὶ μέγιστον ὑπομείναντες ἀγῶνα, τοὔσχατον ἐτύθησαν καὶ αὐτοὶ, τοῦ μὲν Ἀλεξάνδρου μήτε στενάξαντος μήτε γρύξαντός τι ὅλως, ἀλλὰ κατὰ καρδίαν ὁμιλοῦντος τῷ θεῷ.

English · Claude translation

They passed through all the instruments devised for punishment in the amphitheatre and, having endured a very great contest, were at last sacrificed themselves as well. Alexander neither groaned nor uttered any sound at all, but conversed with God in his heart.

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Source

Dindorf 4:195 · 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

Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.51 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/51/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.51 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/51/).

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