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Church History 9.6.3

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

Summary: Lucian, a learned presbyter of Antioch, defended the faith at Nicomedia and was killed in prison.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:424–425

Λουκιανός τε, ἀνὴρ τὰ πάντα ἄριστος, βίῳ τε ἐγκρατὴς καὶ τοῖς ἱεροῖς μαθήμασι συγκεκροτημένος, τῆς κατʼ Ἀντιόχειαν παροικίας πρεσβύτερος, ἀχθεὶς ἐπὶ τῆς Νικομηδέων πόλεως, ἔνθα τηνικαῦτα βασιλεὺς διατρίβων ἐτύγχανε, παρασχών τε ἐπὶ τοῦ ἄρχοντος τὴν ὑπὲρ ἧς προΐστατο διδασκαλίας ἀπολογίαν, δεσμωτηρίῳ παραδοθεὶς κτίννυται.

English · Claude translation

And Lucian, a man excellent in all things, self-controlled in life and well trained in sacred learning, presbyter of the church at Antioch, was brought to the city of Nicomedia, where the emperor happened to be staying at the time; and after making before the ruler a defense of the teaching he championed, he was committed to prison and put to death.

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Source
Dindorf 4:424–425 · 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

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (misplaced diaeresis in the digital text): προί·στατο → προΐστατο.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/6/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/6/3/).

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