Church History 5.1.62 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:197

τούτοις ἑξῆς “μεθʼ ἕτερά φασι “τὰ οὖν σώματα τῶν μαρτύρων “παραδειγματισθέντα καὶ αἰθαλωθέντα ἐπὶ “ἡμέρας ἓξ, μετέπειτα καέντα καὶ αἰθαλωθέντα ὑπὸ “τῶν ἀνόμων κατεσαρώθη εἰς τὸν Ῥοδανὸν ποταμὸν “πλησίον παραρρέοντα, ὅπως μηδὲ λείψανον αὐτῶν “φαίνηται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἔτι.

English · Claude translation

After this, following other matters, they say: “So the bodies of the martyrs, having been exposed to every outrage and left in the open for six days, were afterwards burned and reduced to ashes by the lawless and swept into the river Rhône, which flows nearby, so that not even a relic of them might still appear on the earth.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:197 · 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, Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons. The digital text repeats αἰθαλωθέντα; the first is probably a slip for a word such as ὑβρισθέντα (“outraged”).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.62 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/62/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.62 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/62/).