Church History 5.5.4

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

Summary: Apolinarius says the legion was afterwards called “the Thundering Legion.”

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:202

τούτων δʼ ἂν εἴη καὶ Ἀπολινάριος, ἐξ ἐκείνου φήσας τὴν διʼ εὐχῆς τὸ παράδοξον πεποιηκυῖαν λεγεῶνα οἰκείαν τῷ γεγονότι πρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως εἰληφέναι προσηγορίαν, κεραυνοβόλον τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἐπικληθεῖσαν φωνῇ.

English · Claude translation

Among these would be Apolinarius, who says that from that time the legion which had worked the marvel by its prayer received from the emperor a name suited to what had happened, being called in Latin “the Thunder-hurling.”

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:202 · 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: Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

Claudius Apolinarius, bishop of Hierapolis; his work is lost. The Twelfth Legion was in fact already called Fulminata before this event.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/5/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/5/4/).

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