{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2057.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2057.tlg002.local001","title":"Historia Ecclesiastica","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Socrates, Scholasticus","authorityName":"SOCRATES Scholasticus Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2057-socrates-scholasticus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2057-socrates-scholasticus/","editors":["Robert Hussey","William Bright"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Socrates' Ecclesiastical history","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford at the Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1893","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433068232671","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Socrates, Scholasticus. Historia Ecclesiastica. ed. Robert Hussey, William Bright. Socrates' Ecclesiastical history, Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1893. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2057.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"Τὸ τοῦ βιβλίου προοίμιον. Εὐσέβιος ὁ Παμφίλου ἐν ὅλοις δέκα βιβλίοις τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν ἱστορίαν ἐκθέμενος, κατέπαυσεν εἰς τοὺς χρόνους τοῦ βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου, ἐν οἷς καὶ ὁ παρὰ τοῦ Διοκλητιανοῦ κατὰ Χριστιανῶν γενόμενος διωγμὸς ἀπεπαύσατο. Γράφων δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἰς τὸν βίον Κωνσταντίνου, τῶν κατ̓ Ἄρειον μερικῶς μνήμην πεποίηται, τῶν ἐπαίνων τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ τῆς πανηγυρικῆς ὑψηγορίας Cp. c. 16. τῶν λόγων μᾶλλον, ὡς ἐν ἐγκωμίῳ φροντίσας, ἢ περὶ τοῦ ἀκριβῶς περιλαβεῖν τὰ γενόμενα. Ἡμεῖς δὲ προθέμενοι συγγράψαι τὰ ἐξ ἐκείνου μέχρι τῶν τῇδε περὶ τὰς ἐκκλησίας γενόμενα, τῆς ὑποθέσεως ἀρχὴν, ἐξ ὧν ἐκεῖνος ἀπέλιπε, ποιησόμεθα: οὐ φράσεως ὄγκου φροντίζοντες, ἀλλ̓ ὅσα ἢ ἐγγράφως εὕρομεν, ἢ παρὰ τῶν ἱστορησάντων ἠκούσαμεν διηγουμένων. Καὶ ἐπειδὴ πρὸς τὸ προκείμενον συλλαμβάνεται ἡμῖν μνημονεῦσαι, τίνα τρόπον ὁ βασιλεὺς Κωνσταντῖνος ἐπὶ τὸ Χριστιανίζειν ἐλήλυθε, μικρὰ περὶ τούτου ὡς οἷόν τε…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/#tlg2057-tlg002-local001-7"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2057.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2057/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}