Church History 6.41.15 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:285

ὧν πρῶτος Ἰουλιανὸς, ἄνθρωπος ποδαγρὸς, μὴ “στῆναι, μὴ βαδίσαι δυνάμενος, σὺν ἑτέροις δύο τοῖς “φέρουσιν αὐτὸν προσήχθη, ὧν ὁ μὲν ἕτερος εὐθὺς “ἠρνήσατο, ὁ δʼ ἕτερος, Κρονίων ὀνόματι, ἐπίκλην “δὲ Εὔνους, καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ πρεσβύτης Ἰουλιανὸς, ὁμο- “λογήσαντες τὸν κύριον, διὰ πάσης τῆς πόλεως μεγί- “στης οὔσης, ὡς ἴστε, καμήλοις ἐποχούμενοι καὶ “μετέωροι μαστιγούμενοι, τέλος ἀσβέστῳ πυρὶ, περι- “κεχυμένου τοῦ δήμου παντὸς, κατεκάησαν.

English · Claude translation

The first of them was Julian, a man suffering from gout, unable to stand or walk, who was brought with two others who carried him. One of these denied at once; but the other, named Cronion, surnamed Eunus, and the old man Julian himself, having confessed the Lord, were carried on camels through the whole city, which is very large, as you know, and scourged as they were held up aloft, and finally burned in quicklime, the whole populace standing round.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:285 · 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

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. “Quicklime” renders ἀσβέστῳ πυρί (literally “unquenchable fire”); the meaning is disputed.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/15/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/15/).