Church History 6.5.4

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

Summary: She died as boiling pitch was poured slowly over her.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:247

ταῦτα δὲ εἰποῦσαν γενναίως τὴν ἔξοδον ὑποστῆναι, πίττης ἐμπύρου κατὰ διάφορα μέρη τοῦ σώματος ἀπʼ ἄκρων ποδῶν καὶ μέχρι κορυφῆς ἠρέμα καὶ κατὰ μικρὸν περιχυθείσης αὐτῇ

English · Claude translation

Having said this, they say, she nobly endured her departure, boiling pitch being poured slowly and little by little over different parts of her body, from the tips of her feet to the crown of her head.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:247 · 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)
Topics: Martyrdom

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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ἠρέμα καἰ → ἠρέμα καὶ.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/5/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/5/4/).

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