Sophia Scriptura

Church History 9.7.13

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

Summary: The emperor invites Tyre to ask any gift it wants as a reward.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:428

ἵνα δὲ εἰδῆτε ὅσῳ προσφιλὴς ἡμῖν γέγονεν ἡ περὶ τούτου ἀξίωσις ὑμῶν, καὶ χωρὶς ψηφισμάτων καὶ χωρὶς δεήσεως αὐθαιρέτῳ βουλήσει ἡ ἡμετέρα προθυμοτάτη φιλα- “γαθίαις ψυχὴ, ἐπιτρέπομεν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ “ὁποίαν δʼ ἂν βουληθῆτε μεγαλοδωρεὰν, ἀντὶ ταύ- της ὑμῶν τῆς φιλοθέου προθέσεως αἰτῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

And so that you may know how welcome your request about this has been to us, and how most ready of its own free will, without petitions and without entreaty, our soul is for acts of kindness, we permit your devotion to ask whatever great gift you wish in return for this your God-loving purpose.

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Source
Dindorf 4:428 · 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

Translation notes

  • A word (probably καθοσιώσει, “devotion”) is missing after τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ in the digital text.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text): ἔνα δὲ εἰδῆτε → ἵνα δὲ εἰδῆτε.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.7.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/7/13/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.7.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/7/13/).

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