Church History 7.30.22 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Emperors from Probus to Diocletian, under whom the Great Persecution took place.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:338–339

ἔτεσι γοῦν ἓξ κρατήσαντα τὸν Αὐρηλιανὸν διαδέχεται Πρόβος, καὶ τοῦτον δέ που τοῖς ἴσοις ἐπικατασχόντα Κᾶρος ἅμα παισὶ Καρίνῳ καὶ Νουμεριανῷ· πάλιν τʼ αὖ καὶ τούτων οὐδʼ ὅλοις τρισὶν ἐνιαυτοῖς διαγενομένων μέτεισι τὰ τῆς ἡγεμονίας εἰς Διοκλητιανὸν καὶ τοὺς μετʼ αὐτὸν εἰσποιηθέντας, ἐφʼ ὧν ὁ καθʼ ἡμᾶς συντελεῖται διωγμός καὶ ἡ κατʼ αὐτὸν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν καθαίρεσις.

English · Claude translation

Aurelian, having reigned six years, was succeeded by Probus; and he, having ruled about as many, by Carus with his sons Carinus and Numerian. And again, when these had lasted not even three whole years, the government passed to Diocletian and those associated with him, under whom the persecution of our time was accomplished and the destruction of the churches in it.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:338–339 · 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

Persecution

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/22/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/22/).