Sophia Scriptura

Church History 8.17.11

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

Summary: Eusebius notes that he has translated the edict from Latin and turns to what followed.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:381

ταῦτα κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαιων φωνὴν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γλῶτταν κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν μεταληφθέντα τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν τρόπον. τί δὴ οὖν ἐπὶ τούτοις γίνεται ἐπιθεωρῆσαι καιρός.

English · Claude translation

Such is this edict, translated as well as possible from the language of the Romans into the Greek tongue. It is time now to consider what happened after these things.

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Source
Dindorf 4:381 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/11/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/11/).

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