Church History 6.3.2

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

Summary: His first pupils were Plutarch, later a martyr, and Heraclas, later bishop of Alexandria.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:243

ὧν πρῶτον ἐπισημαίνεται γεγονέναι Πλούταρχον, ὃς μετὰ τὸ βιῶναι καλῶς καὶ μαρτυρίῳ θείῳ κατεκοσμήθη· δεύτερον Ηρακλᾶν τοῦ Πλουτάρχου ἀδελφὸν, ὃς δὴ καὶ αὐτὸς παρʼ αὐτῷ πλείστην βίου φιλοσόφου καὶ ἀσκήσεως ἀπόδειξιν παρασχὼν τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων μετὰ Δημήτριον τρίον ἐπισκοπῆς ἀξιοῦται.

English · Claude translation

He notes that the first of them was Plutarch, who after living well was also adorned with divine martyrdom; the second Heraclas, Plutarch's brother, who himself gave great proof of a philosophic and ascetic life with him, and was deemed worthy of the episcopate of the Alexandrians after Demetrius.

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Source: Dindorf 4:243 · 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, Church office

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Translation notes

The digital text reads τρίον, apparently a slip; it is left untranslated.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/2/).

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