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Church History 7.32.14

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

Summary: Anatolius: the nineteen-year cycle begins with a new moon on 22 March.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:343

“Ἔχει τοίνυν ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει τὴν νου- “μηνίαν τοῦ πρώτου μηνὸς, ἥτις ἁπάσης ἐστὶν ἀρχὴ “τῆς ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίδος, τῇ κατʼ Αἰγυπτίους μὲν “Φαμενὼθ ἕκτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι, κατὰ δὲ τοὺς Μακεδό- “νων μῆνας Δύστρου δευτέρα καὶ εἰκάδι, ὡς δʼ “ἄν εἴποιεν ῾Ρωμαῖοι, πρὸ ἕνδεκα Καλανδῶν Ἀπριλ- “λίων.

English · Claude translation

“In the first year, then, the new moon of the first month, which is the beginning of the whole nineteen-year cycle, falls on the twenty-sixth of Phamenoth according to the Egyptians, the twenty-second of Dystrus according to the months of the Macedonians, or, as the Romans would say, the eleventh day before the Kalends of April.

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Source
Dindorf 4:343 · 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
  • Anatolius of Laodicea, Anatolius, Pasch. (Anatolius of Laodicea, On the Pascha) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Anatolius of Laodicea, On the Pascha (to 7.32.19).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/14/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/14/).

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