Church History 8.13.15 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:372

ταῦτα Μαξιμῖνον δεινῶς ἐλύπει, μόνον Καίσαρα παρὰ πάντας εἰσέτι τότε χρηματίζοντα, ὃς δὴ οὖν τὰ μάλιστα τυραννικὸς ὢν, παραρπάσας ἑαυτῷ τὴν ἀξίαν, σεβαστὸς ἦν, αὐτὸς ὑφʼ ἑαυτοῦ γεγονώς· ἐντούτῳ δὲ Κωνσταντίνῳ μηχανὴν θανάτου συρράπτων ἁλοὺς ὁ μετὰ τὴν ἀπόθεσιν ἐπανῃρῆσθαι δεδηλωμένος, αἰσχίστῳ καταστρέφει θανάτῳ. πρώτου δὲ τούτου τὰς ἐπὶ τιμῇ γραφὰς, ἀνδριάντας τε καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα ἐπʼ ἀναθέσει νενόμισται, ὡς ἀνοσίου καὶ δυσσεβεστάτου καθῄρουν.

English · Claude translation

This grieved Maximin terribly, since up to that time he alone was still styled Caesar by all. Being therefore extremely tyrannical, he seized the dignity for himself and became Augustus, made so by himself. Meanwhile, the man who, as we have shown, had resumed office after his abdication was caught contriving a plot for Constantine's death and perished by a most shameful death. He was the first whose honorific inscriptions, statues, and all such things customarily set up in dedication were pulled down, as belonging to an impious and most ungodly man.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:372 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

The man who resumed office after abdicating is Maximian (d. 310).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread and divided word in the digital text; missing letter in the digital text): μόνο Καίσαρα → μόνον Καίσαρα; πρῴ του δὲ → πρώτου δὲ; ἀνδριάντας τʼ καὶ → ἀνδριάντας τε καὶ; ὡς ἀνοσίο καὶ → ὡς ἀνοσίου καὶ; ὃ δὴ οὖν τὰ μάλιστα → ὃς δὴ οὖν τὰ μάλιστα.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/15/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/15/).