Church History 9.11.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Among them were Peucetius, his finance minister, and Culcianus, who had shed much Christian blood in Egypt.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:445

οἷος ἦν ὁ παρὰ πάντας αὐτῷ τιμιώτατος καὶ αἰδεσιμώτατος, ἑταίρων τε γνησιώτατος Πευκέτιος, δισύπατος καὶ τρισύπατος, καὶ τῶν καθόλου λόγων ἔπαρχος πρὸς αὐτοῦ καθεσταμένος, Κουλκιανός τε ὡσαύτως διὰ πάσης ἀρχικῆς προελθὼν ἐξουσίας, ὁ καὶ αὐτὸς μυρίοις τοῖς κατʼ Αἴγυπτον Χριστιανῶν ἐλλαμπρυνόμενος αἵμασιν, ἄλλοι τε ἐπὶ τούτοις οὐκ ὀλίγοι, διʼ ὧν μάλιστα τὰ τῆς Μαξιμίνου τυραννίδος ἐκραταιοῦτό τε καὶ ηὔξετο.

English · Claude translation

such as Peucetius, the most honored and revered of all by him and the most intimate of his companions, twice and three times consul and appointed by him prefect of the general finances; and Culcianus likewise, who had advanced through every office of government and who had also gloried in the blood of countless Christians in Egypt; and besides these not a few others, through whom above all Maximin's tyranny had been strengthened and increased.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:445 · 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)

Topics

Persecution

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/4/).