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- ε3738ΕὐσέβιοςEusebios, EusebiusC4 AD. See generally RE Eusebios(37); PLRE I Eusebius(5). [1] omicron 912: Oulpianos/Ulpian. (The import, here, of 'he too' is unclear.)
- ε3737ΕὐσέβιοςEusebios, Eusebius… [5] The earliest reference to this work is found in Eusebius' Eclogae Propheticae (written before 311) as the Chronological Canons with an Epitome of Universal History both Greek and Nongreek (*Xronikoi\ kano/nes kai\ e)pitomh\ …
- α843ἈκέσιοςAkesios, Acesius… 50, nu 51. [2] kappa 2284. [3] delta 193. [4] Eusebius of Caesarea: epsilon 3737. [5] Abridged and slightly altered from Socrates, Ecclesiastical History 1.10 (web address 1).
- δ157Δεδοκιμασμέναapproved (ones), tested (ones)… (Oeconomicus 6.14, later quoted by Stobaeus) and Polybius (9.32.8). [2] Eusebius of Caesarea: see epsilon 3737, from which this phrase comes. Eusebius' Commentaries on the Psalms were highly regarded by patristic writers in spite …
- ι46ἸάρχαςIarchas… Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana (2.40-41 and passim) and Eusebius, Against Hierocles; cf. under tau 598.
- α156ἈγαπητόςAgapetos, Agapetus… Synnada.) Barrington Atlas map 62 grid E4; present-day Suhut. [2] Eusebius of Caesarea: epsilon 3737. [3] Maximinus Daia, emperor 305-313 (mu 172).
- β286ΒίκτοραVictor… case, so evidently quoted from somewhere; extant instances in Libanius, Eusebius and elsewhere.
- ε2022Ἐπεβοᾶτοcalled on… this precise form, though compare generally to\n *Xristo\n e)pibowme/nous in Eusebius.
- α1128Ἀλέξανδρος ΑἰγαῖοςAlexandros Aigaios, Alexandrus Aegaeus, Alexander of Aegae… Casilon's Questions Concerning the Attic Orators'). [8] See [epsilon 3738] Eusebius. [9] [iota 435] Julian. [10] RE Alexandros(98); NP Alexandros(28); Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.5.
- κ1717ΚλεόβιοςKleobios, Cleobius… as a leader of heretics by Christian writers: see e.g. Eusebius Church History 22.5, quoting Hegesippus (web address 1).
- δ1479ΔωσιάδηςDosiades… later. [1] So in the transmitted versions (Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius) of FGrH 458 F7.
- ν252ΝέρβαςNerva, Nerbas… at web address 1. [1] Compare generally Revelation 1.9 and Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.23.6; neither source names Nerva, though Eusebius notes that the release from Patmos came after the death of Domitian. On John …
- δ1149ΔιόδωροςDiodoros, Diodorus, Diodore… in the bibliography, s.v. qewri/a, D2. [5] The church historian Eusebius of Caesarea. See epsilon 3737 and OCD(4) s.v. (pp.565-6). [6] A sect, or rather a movement, beginning in the second century which gave …
- ι463ἸωάννηςIoannes, Joannes, John [Chrysostom]… "John, presbyter of the church at Antioch, a follower of Eusebius of Emesa and Diodorus, is said to have composed many books, but of these I have only read his On the priesthood." See …
- α1640ἈμμώνιοςAmmonios, Ammonius… proposed' (OCD). [2] Porphyry, Against the Christians fr. 39 Harnack (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6.9.7).
- κ2046ΚονοσκογκόλοροςKonoskonkoloroscf. Eusebius, Chronicon ed. Karst p. 32, 10-14; Georgius Syncellus 1 p. 312. But in this precise form the headword occurs only here. [1] a.k.a. Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria: sigma 121, sigma 122. [2] …
- η544ἩρώδηςHerodes, Herod, Herod the Great… Antiquities 19.8.2. [5] This passage presents a confused version of Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 2.9. Eusebius referred to Acts 12:1-2 ("About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. …
- α1812Ἀναβολήdeferral[1] Apollo. [2] Aelian fr. 46 Didot (= Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 5.35). On Phalaris, tyrant of Akragas (in Sicily) in the C6 BCE, see phi 43 (where this extract reappears) and generally OCD(4) s.v. …
- β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… give it a decidedly earlier date, but not without confusion. Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica 6.39.4, mentions Babylas by name as having been martyred under Decius, emperor 249-51, but also (6.34.1) relates a story about an …
- μ149ΜάνηςManes, Mani… 1871, p. 183); John of Damascus, Against the Manichaeans 1.67; Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. 7.31.1ff.
- ν10ΝαζιραῖοςNazarite… [2] 41-54 CE. [3] First bishop of Antioch after Peter: Eusebius 3.22; see web address 1. [4] For the Nazarites (Hebrew נְזִרִים /nəzɪrim/, "separate" or "consecrated") in the Septuagint see e.g. Numbers 6:1-21; also …
- κ2285Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ μέγαςConstantine the Great, Constantine I, Constantinus I… Eunapius is abridged from the introduction to the translation of Eusebius' Life of Constantine in the on-line edition of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. I at CCEL (web address 1): "(22) Eunapius …
- ε3213ἙστιάδεςHestiades… precise form, though the final sentence ('Having accomplished etc.') summarizes Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3.46.1-47.1. The relative pronoun a(\s connects the passage awkwardly to the apparently unrelated note on the Hestiades. [3] Synesius, Dion …
- ι229Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ θεὸς ἡμῶνJesus the Christ and our God… On Josephus, see iota 503 and iota 504. [4] On Eusebius, see epsilon 3737. [5] Luke 4:18, quoting Isaiah 61:1. [6] An added note, lacking in some mss.
- ι80ἼβυκοςIbykos, Ibycus… History of Samos (Oxford 1987) 70 with n.7. [4] 564-561. Eusebius puts his floruit in the 61st Olympiad (536-533). For Croesus (Kroisos), see kappa 2497 etc. [5] See sambukai: sigma 73 (also iota 29). …
- α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… "the happiness of Aristotle", is used in fr.4 (preserved by Eusebius) of the C2-CE Platonist philosopher Atticus [OCD(4) p.204]. [7] Aristophanes, Clouds 425, where however, the text has the first person. Strepsiades says that …
- κ2174ΚούβρικοςKoubrikos, Cubricus, The Pious, Mani; Manichaean… aorist participle passive from the verb mai/nomai of being mad (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 7.31.1ff.; John Chrysostom, Against the Manichaeans 1.67.30, and other refs. at mu 149 note 2). A less hostile account of his …
- δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… author as the other books. [2] Dionysius of Corinth in Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3.4 refers to D. as bishop of Athens. [3] Literally: "as for the inherited practice of Greek disciplines". [4] There is …
- μ172ΜαξιμῖνοςMaximinus… 146-7)). For Maximinus Daia and the period of the Tetrarchy, Eusebius and Lactantius are two of our key sources (see web addresses 4 & 5), but one must be wary of their Christian bias …
- αι286Αἵρεσιςschool, sect… real founder of the school was Aristippus the Younger (see Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 14.18.31-32), who defended the thesis that the real goal of life is the bodily pleasure of the moment. See alpha 3908, …