Church History 9.8.7

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

Summary: Even noblewomen were forced to beg in the marketplaces, still showing their breeding.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:430–431

καὶ γυναίων δὲ τῶν κατὰ πόλεις εὐγενίδων τινὲς, εἰς ἀναίσχυντον ἀνάγκην πρὸς τῆς ἀπορίας ἐλαθεῖσαι, μεταιτεῖν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγορῶν προεληλύθεσαν, τῆς πάλαι ἐλευθερίου ὑπόδειγμα διὰ τῆς περὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αἰδοῦς καὶ τῆς ἀμφὶ τὴν περιβολὴν κοσμιότητος ὑποφαίνουσαι.

English · Claude translation

And some well-born women of the cities, driven by want to shameless necessity, came out to beg in the marketplaces, showing a trace of their former liberal upbringing by the modesty of their faces and the decency of their dress.

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Source: Dindorf 4:430–431 · 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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Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): ἀγο- ρῶν → ἀγορῶν.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/7/).

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