Church History 9.11.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:444–445

πρῶτός τε γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐκεῖνος Μαξιμῖνος, ἁπάντων πολεμιώτατος ὑπὸ τῶν κρατούντων ἀναγορευθεὶς, δυσσεβέστατος καὶ δυσωνυμώτατος καὶ θεομισέστατος τύραννος διὰ προγραμμάτων δημοσίων ἀνεστηλίτευτο, γραφαί τε ὅσαι εἰς τιμὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ παίδων κατὰ πᾶσαν ἀνέκειντο πόλιν, αἱ μὲν ἐξ ὕψους εἰς ἔδαφος ῥιπτούμεναι συνετρίβοντο, αἶ δὲ τὰς προσόψεις ἠχρειοῦντο, σκοτεινῷ χρώματι καταμελανούμεναι, ἀνδριάντων τε ὁμοίως ὁπόσοι εἰς τὴν αὐτοῦ τιμὴν διανεστήκεσαν, ὡσαύτως ῥιπτούμενοι συνετρίβοντο, γέλως καὶ παιδιὰ τοῖς ἐνυβρίζειν καὶ ἐμπαροινεῖν ἐθέλουσιν ἐκκείμενοι.

English · Claude translation

For first Maximin himself, proclaimed by the rulers the worst enemy of all, was publicly denounced in public proclamations as a most impious, most infamous, and most God-hated tyrant. Of the portraits set up in every city in honor of him and his children, some were thrown down from on high and smashed, others had their faces obliterated by being daubed with dark paint; and likewise all the statues that had been set up in his honor were thrown down and broken in the same way, lying exposed as a laughingstock and plaything to those who wished to insult and abuse them.

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Source

Dindorf 4:444–445 · 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

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text; word wrongly divided in the digital text): δοσωνυμώτατος → δυσωνυμώτατος; διὰ πρὸ γραμμάτων → διὰ προγραμμάτων.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/2/).