Church History 5.1.57

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

Summary: Even then the persecutors' rage turned against the martyrs' bodies.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:196

ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ οὕτως κόρον ἐλάμβανεν αὐτῶν “ἡ μανία καὶ ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ἁγίους ὠμότης. ὑπὸ γὰρ “ἀγρίου θηρὸς ἄγρια καὶ βάρβαρα φῦλα ταραχθέντα “δυσπαύστως εἶχε, καὶ ἄλλην ἰδίαν ἀρχὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς “σώμασιν ἐλάμβανεν ἡ ὕβρις αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

But not even so was their madness and their cruelty toward the saints satisfied. For wild and barbarous tribes, stirred up by a wild beast, were hard to stop, and their insolence took another, peculiar turn against the bodies.

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Source

Dindorf 4:196 · 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

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons. The “wild beast” is the devil.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.57 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/57/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.57 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/57/).

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