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Church History 8.13.5

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

Summary: In Palestine Bishop Silvanus of Gaza was beheaded with thirty-nine others at the Phaeno mines, and the Egyptian bishops Peleus and Nilus were burned.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:369

τῶν δʼ ἐπὶ Παλαιστίνης μαρτύρων Σιλβανὸς, ἐπίσκοπος τῶν ἀμφὶ τὴν Γάζαν ἐκκλησιῶν, κατὰ τὰ ἐν Φαίνοι χαλκοῦ μέταλλα σὺν ἑτέροις ἑνὸς δέουσι τὸν ἀριθμὸν τεσσαράκοντα τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτέμνεται, Αἰγύπτιοί τε αὐτόθι Πήλευς καὶ Νεῖλος ἐπίσκοποι μεθʼ ἑτέρων τὴν διὰ πυρὸς ὑπέμειναν τελευτήν.

English · Claude translation

Of the martyrs in Palestine, Silvanus, bishop of the churches around Gaza, was beheaded at the copper mines of Phaeno with others, thirty-nine in number; and the Egyptian bishops Peleus and Nilus, with others, endured death by fire there.

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Source
Dindorf 4:369 · 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
Martyrdom, Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/5/).

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