Church History 9.8.5

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

Summary: Countless died in cities and even more in the countryside, nearly emptying the rural census rolls.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:430

μυρίοι μὲν οὖν ἐτύγχανον οἱ κατὰ πόλεις θνήσκοντες, πλείους δὲ τούτων οἱ κατʼ ἀγρούς τε καὶ κώμας, ὡς ἤδη καὶ τὰς πάλαι τῶν ἀγροίκων πολυάνδρους ἀπογραφὰς μικροῦ δεῖν παντελῆ παθεῖν ἐξάλειψιν, ἀθρόως σχεδὸν ἁπάντων ἐνδείᾳ τροφῆς καὶ λοιμώδει νόσῳ διεφθαρμένων.

English · Claude translation

Countless were those who died in the cities, and still more those in the fields and villages, so that the census lists of the country people, once full of names, suffered almost complete erasure, nearly all of them being destroyed at once by lack of food and by the pestilence.

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Source: Dindorf 4:430 · 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. 9.8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/5/).

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