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Church History 6.40.4

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

Summary: Dionysius was captured and taken to Taposiris; Timothy escaped.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:281

εἶτά τινα μεταξὺ εἰπὼν τὰ μετὰ τὴν φυγὴν αὐτῷ συμβεβηκότα δηλοῖ, ταῦτα ἐπιφέρων “ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ περὶ ἡλίου δυσμὰς ἅμα τοῖς “σὺν ἐμοὶ γενόμενος ὑπὸ τοῖς στρατιώταις εἰς Ταπό- “σιριν ἤχθην, ὁ δὲ Τιμόθεος κατὰ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ “πρόνοιαν ἔτυχε μὴ παρὼν μηδὲ καταληφθείς. ἐλθὼν “δὲ ὕστερον ηὗρε τὸν οἶκον ἔρημον, καὶ φρουροῦν- “τας αὐτὸν ὑπηρέτας, ἡμᾶς δὲ ἐξηνδραποδισμένους.”

English · Claude translation

Then, after saying some things in between, he tells what happened to him after the flight, adding this: “About sunset I was seized with those who were with me by the soldiers and taken to Taposiris; but Timothy, by the providence of God, happened not to be present and was not caught. Coming later, he found the house deserted and guarded by attendants, and us taken captive.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:281 · 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
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/4/).

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