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Church History 6.41.4

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

Summary: Quinta refused to worship an idol and was dragged through the city and stoned.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:283

ἔπειτα πιστὴν γυναῖκα Κοΐνταν “καλουμένην ἐπὶ τὸ εἰδωλεῖον ἀγαγόντες “προσκυνεῖν· ἀποστρεφομένην δὲ καὶ βδελυττομένην “ἐκδήσαντες τῶν ποδῶν, διὰ πάσης τῆς πόλεως κατὰ “τοῦ τραχέος λιθοστρώτου σύροντες, προσαρασσομέ- “νην τοῖς μυλιαίοις λίθοις ἅμα καὶ μαστιγοῦντες, ἐπὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀγαγόντες κατέλευσαν τόπον.

English · Claude translation

Then they led a believing woman called Quinta to the idol temple and tried to compel her to worship; when she turned away in loathing, they tied her by the feet and dragged her through the whole city over the rough pavement, dashing her against the millstones and scourging her at the same time, and brought her to the same place and stoned her.

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Source
Dindorf 4:283 · 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. A verb (“compelled”) is lost in the digital text.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/4/).

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