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Church History 5.4.3

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

Summary: Eusebius refers readers to his martyr collection for the full list of those who died.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:201

τί δεῖ καταλέγειν τὸν ἐν τῇ δηλωθείσῃ γραφῇ τῶν μαρτύρων κατάλογον, ἰδίᾳ μὲν τῶν ἀποτμήσει κεφαλῆς τετελειωμένων, ἰδίᾳ δὲ τῶν θηρσὶν εἰς βορὰν παραβεβλημένων, καὶ αὖθις τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς εἱρκτῆς κεκοιμημένων, τόν τε ἀριθμὸν τῶν εἰσέτι τότε περιόντων ὁμολογητῶν; ὅτῳ γὰρ φίλον, καὶ ταῦτα ῥᾴδιον πληρέστατα διαγνῶναι μετὰ χεῖρας ἀναλαβόντι τὸ σύγγραμμα, ὃ καὶ αὐτὸ τῇ τῶν μαρτυρίων συναγωγῇ πρὸς ἡμῶν, ὡς γοῦν ἔφην, κατείλεκται. ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἐπʼ Ἀντωνίνου τοιαῦτα.

English · Claude translation

Why need I list the catalogue of martyrs given in the document mentioned: separately those perfected by beheading, separately those thrown to the beasts as food, and again those who fell asleep in prison, and the number of the confessors still surviving at that time? Anyone who wishes can easily learn these things in full by taking in hand the work, which, as I said, has been included by us in the collection of martyrdoms. Such were the events under Antoninus.

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Source
Dindorf 4:201 · 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)
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): ουναγωγῇ → συναγωγῇ.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/4/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/4/3/).

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