Church History 6.40.9

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

Summary: His companions carried him out of the town on a donkey.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:282

ἐπηκολούθουν δέ μοι οἱ τούτων πάντων “γενόμενοι μάρτυρες, Γάϊος, Φαῦστος, Πέτρος, Παῦ- “λος, οἳ καὶ ὑπολαβόντες με φοράδην ἐξήγαγον “πολιχνίου, καὶ ὄνῳ γυμνῷ ἐπιβιβάσαντες ἀπήγαγον.” ταῦτα περὶ ἑαυτοῦ ὁ Διονύσιος.

English · Claude translation

Those who were witnesses of all these things followed me: Gaius, Faustus, Peter, Paul. They took me up and carried me out of the little town, and setting me on a bare-backed donkey led me away.” So Dionysius about himself.

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Source

Dindorf 4:282 · 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.

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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

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray mark in the digital text): Γάι·ος → Γάϊος.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/9/).

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