Church History 7.32.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:342

ταύτῃ δὲ τῶν λοιπῶν ἁπάντων τῇ βουλῇ συγκατατεθειμένων μικροῦ δεῖν τοὺς πάντας τῶν πολιορκουμένων διεσώσατο, ἐν πρώτοις μὲν τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν κατὰ τὴν πόλιν πᾶσαν ἡλικίαν διαδιδράσκειν προμηθούμενος, οὐ μόνον τῶν κατὰ τὴν ψῆφον δεδογμένων, τῇ δὲ τούτων προφάσει καὶ μυρίους ἄλλους λεληθότως γυναικείαν στολὴν ἀμπισχομένους, νύκτωρ τε τῇ ἐκείνου φροντίδι τῶν πυλῶν ἐξιόντας καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥωμαίων στρατιὰν ὁρμῶντας. ἔνθα τοὺς πάντας ὑποδεχόμενος ὁ Εὐσέβιος πατρὸς καὶ ἰατροῦ δίκην κεκακωμένους ἐκ τῆς μακρᾶς πολιορκίας διὰ πάσης προνοίας καὶ θεραπείας ἀνεκτᾶτο.

English · Claude translation

When all the rest agreed to this counsel, he saved almost all the besieged: first those of the church, and then others of every age in the city, taking care that they escaped — not only those covered by the vote, but under this pretext countless others too, who secretly put on women's clothes and by his arrangement went out of the gates at night and hurried to the Roman army. There Eusebius received them all and, like a father and physician, restored them, worn out by the long siege, with every kind of care and treatment.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:342 · 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)

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text; misread letters in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): Εὐσάβιος → Εὐσέβιος; ἰᾶτʼ ῥοῦ → ἰατροῦ; τῆς μακρὰς πολιορκίας → τῆς μακρᾶς πολιορκίας.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/11/).