Church History 6.44.3

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

Summary: On the fourth day Serapion asked for a presbyter to release him.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:295

βραχὺ δὲ ἀνασφήλας τῇ τετάρτῃ προσεκαλέσατο τὸν θυγατριδοῦν, καὶ “μέχρι τίνος, φησὶν, ὠ τέκνον, με κατέχετε; δέομαι, σπεύσατε, καί με θᾶττον ἀπολύσατε, τῶν πρεσβυτέρων μοί τινα κάλεσον.” καὶ ταῦτα εἰπὼν πάλιν ἦν ἄφωνος.

English · Claude translation

Recovering a little on the fourth day, he called his grandson and said, ‘How long, child, will you hold me back? I beg you, hurry and release me quickly. Call one of the presbyters for me.’ And saying this he was again speechless.

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Source

Dindorf 4:295 · 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

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Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/3/).

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