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Church History 7.23.3

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

Summary: The empire under Gallienus seems renewed.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:322

καὶ οἷον ἀποθεμένη τὸ γῆρας ἡ βασι- “λεία, καὶ τὴν προοῦσαν ἀνακαθηραμένη κακίαν, “ἀκμαιότερον νῦν ἐπανθεῖ, καὶ πορρώτερον ὁρᾶται “καὶ ἀκούεται καὶ διαφοιτᾷ πανταχοῦ.”

English · Claude translation

And the empire, as though it had put off old age and purged itself of its former wickedness, now blooms more vigorously, and is seen and heard farther, and spreads everywhere.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:322 · 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

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/23/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/23/3/).

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