Church History 5.3.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:200

Ἀλκιβιάδου γάρ τινος ἐξ αὐτῶν, πάνυ αὐχμηρὸν βιοῦντος βίον, καὶ μηδενὸς ὅλως τὸ πρότερον μεταλαμβάνοντος, ἀλλʼ ἢ ἄρτῳ μόνῳ καὶ ὕδατι χρωμένου, πειρωμένου τε καὶ ἐν τῇ εἱρκτῇ οὕτω διάγειν, Ἀττάλῳ μετὰ τὸν πρῶτον ἀγῶνα, ὃν ἐν τῷ ἀμφιθεάτρῳ ἤνυσεν, ἀπεκαλύφθη, ὅτι μὴ καλῶς ποιοίη Ἀλκιβιάδης, μὴ χρώμενος τοῖς κτίσμασι τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ἄλλοις τύπον σκανδάλου ὑπολειπόμενος.

English · Claude translation

One of them, Alcibiades, lived a very austere life, having formerly partaken of nothing at all but using only bread and water, and he tried to live so in prison too. But after the first contest which Attalus completed in the amphitheatre, it was revealed to Attalus that Alcibiades was not doing well in not using the creatures of God, and was leaving an example of stumbling to others.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:200 · 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)

Scripture

1 Tim 4:4 · allusion, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Fasting, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

Paraphrase of the Letter of Vienne and Lyons; cf. 1 Tim 4:3–4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): τοὐ θεοῦ → τοῦ θεοῦ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/3/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/3/2/).