Sophia Scriptura

Church History 9.8.10

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

Summary: Dogs ate the dead, so people killed the dogs for fear they would attack the living.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:431

ἤδη γέ τοι καὶ κυνῶν τινὲς ἐγίνοντο βορὰ, διʼ ἣν μάλιστα αἰτίαν οἶ ζῶντες ἐπὶ τὴν κυνοκτονίαν ἐτράποντο, δέει τοῦ μὴ λυσσήσαντας ἀνθρωποφαγίαν ἐργάσασθαι.

English · Claude translation

Some even became food for dogs, for which reason above all the living turned to killing dogs, for fear that the dogs would go mad and begin to devour people.

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Source
Dindorf 4:431 · 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. 9.8.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/10/).

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