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bishops were at the festival from all the provinces. Pin.4.44 Concerning their reception by Marianus the notary, and the distributions to the poor and the offerings of the church. Pin.4.45 Various homilies of the bishops in assemblies and of Eusebius who wrote these things. Pin.4.46 That he also later delivered the description of the martyrium of the Savior and a Tricennial oration in the presence of Constantine himself. Pin.4.47 That the synod in Nicaea took place at Constantine's Vicennalia, and the dedication in Jerusalem at his Tricennalia. Pin.4.48 How Constantine did not tolerate someone who praised him excessively. Pin.4.49 The marriage of his son Constantius Caesar. Pin.4.50 Embassy and gifts from the Indians. Pin.4.51 How Constantine, having divided the empire among his three sons, instructed them in the principles of monarchy with piety. Pin.4.52 How he also led them to piety when they reached manhood. Pin.4.53 That having reigned for about thirty-two years and lived for more than sixty, he had a sound body. Pin.4.54 Concerning those who abused his excessive philanthropy for avarice and hypocrisy. Pin.4.55 How Constantine composed orations until his death. Pin.4.56 How when marching against the Persians, he took with him bishops and a tent in the form of a church. Pin.4.57 How, having received an embassy from the Persians, he kept the vigil with the others at the festival of Easter. Pin.4.58 Concerning the construction of the martyrium called of the Apostles in Constantinople. Pin.4.59 A further description of the same martyrium. Pin.4.60 That in it he also built a monument for his own burial. Pin.4.61 A bodily ailment in Helenopolis and prayers concerning baptism. Pin.4.62 Constantine's entreaty to the bishops concerning the administration of the rite. Pin.4.63 How, having received the rite, he hymned God. Pin.4.64 Constantine's death at noon on the festival of Pentecost. Pin.4.65 Lamentations of the soldiers and officers. Pin.4.66 The transport of the body from Nicomedia to the palace in Constantinople. Pin.4.67 How even after death he was honored by the counts and the rest just as when he was alive. Pin.4.68 How the army decreed that his sons should henceforth be Augusti. Pin.4.69 Rome's mourning for Constantine and the honor paid through images after his death. Pin.4.70 The deposition of the body by his son Constantius in Constantinople. Pin.4.71 Assembly in the so-called martyrium of the Apostles on the occasion of Constantine's death. Pin.4.72 Concerning the phoenix bird. Pin.4.73 How on coins they engraved Constantine as ascending to heaven. Pin.4.74 That God, being honored by him, justly honored him in return. Pin.4.75 That Constantine was more pious than the preceding Roman emperors. Pin.4.76n The chapters of the fourth book.

1.t.1 OF EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI ON THE LIFE OF THE BLESSED EMPEROR CONSTANTINE

BOOK I 1.1.1 Just now all humankind was celebrating for the great emperor periods of all sorts of decades, both double and triple, in festive banquets, and just now we ourselves, having taken the triumphant one into the midst of a synod of God's ministers, were honoring him with hymns for his Vicennalia, and already too, having woven for him garlands of words for his Tricennalia, in the palace itself we were crowning his sacred head1.1.2; but now our speech stands at a loss, desiring indeed to utter something of the usual things, but perplexed as to where it might even turn, struck only by the wonder of the astonishing sight. For wherever one might gaze intently, whether toward the east or toward the west, whether upon the whole earth itself or toward heaven itself, everywhere and in every way

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εἰς τὴν ἑορτὴν ἐκ πασῶν ἐπαρχιῶν ἦσαν ἐπίσκοποι. Pin.4.44 Περὶ τῆς διὰ Μαριανοῦ τοῦ νοταρίου δεξιώσεως αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν εἰς πτωχοὺς διαδόσεων καὶ ἀναθημάτων τῆς ἐκκλησίας. Pin.4.45 Τῶν ἐπισκόπων ἐν συνάξεσι προσομιλίαι ποικίλαι καὶ Εὐσεβίου τοῦ ταῦτα συγγράψαντος. Pin.4.46 Ὅτι καὶ τὴν ἔκφρασιν τοῦ μαρτυρίου τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ τριακονταετηρικὸν εἶπεν ὕστερον ἐπ' αὐτοῦ Κωνσταντίνου. Pin.4.47 Ὅτι ἡ μὲν ἐν Νικαίᾳ σύνοδος τῇ εἰκοσαετηρίδι, τὰ ἐγκαίνια δὲ τὰ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις τῇ τριακονταετηρίδι Κωνσταντίνου γέγονεν. Pin.4.48 Ὅπως τινὸς ἄγαν ἐπαινοῦντος οὐκ ἠνέσχετο Κωνσταντῖνος. Pin.4.49 Γάμοι Κωνσταντίου υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ καίσαρος. Pin.4.50 Ἰνδῶν πρεσβεία καὶ δῶρα. Pin.4.51 Ὅπως τοῖς τρισὶν υἱοῖς Κωνσταντῖνος διελὼν τὴν ἀρχήν, τὰ βασιλικὰ μετ' εὐσεβείας διηγεῖτο. Pin.4.52 Ὅπως καὶ ἀνδρωθέντας αὐτοὺς εἰς εὐσέβειαν ἤγαγεν. Pin.4.53 Ὅτι ἀμφὶ τὰ τριακονταδύο ἔτη βασιλεύσας καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰ ἑξήκοντα ζήσας σῶον εἶχε τὸ σῶμα. Pin.4.54 Περὶ τῶν τῇ ἄγαν αὐτοῦ φιλανθρωπίᾳ συγκεχρημένων εἰς ἀπληστίαν καὶ ὑποκρίσεις. Pin.4.55 Ὅπως μέχρι τελευτῆς ἐλογογράφει Κωνσταντῖνος. Pin.4.56 Ὅπως ἐπὶ Πέρσας στρατεύων συμπαρέλαβεν ἐπισκόπους καὶ σκηνὴν ὡς σχῆμα τῆς ἐκκλησίας. Pin.4.57 Ὅπως Περσῶν πρεσβείας δεξάμενος, ἐν τῇ τοῦ πάσχα ἑορτῇ συνδιενυκτέρευσε τοῖς ἄλλοις. Pin.4.58 Περὶ οἰκοδομῆς τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει μαρτυρίου. Pin.4.59 Ἔκφρασις ἔτι τοῦ αὐτοῦ μαρτυρίου. Pin.4.60 Ὅτι ἐν τούτῳ καὶ μνημεῖον εἰς ταφὴν ἑαυτῷ προσῳκοδόμησεν. Pin.4.61 Ἀνωμαλία σώματος ἐν Ἑλενοπόλει καὶ προσευχαὶ περὶ βαπτίσματος. Pin.4.62 Κωνσταντίνου πρὸς ἐπισκόπους περὶ μεταδόσεως τοῦ λουτροῦ παράκλησις. Pin.4.63 Τὸ λουτρὸν λαβὼν ὅπως ἀνύμνει τὸν θεόν. Pin.4.64 Κωνσταντίνου τελευτὴ ἐν τῇ τῆς πεντηκοστῆς ἑορτῇ μεσημβρίας. Pin.4.65 Στρατιωτῶν καὶ ταξιαρχῶν ὀδυρμοί. Pin.4.66 Μετακομιδὴ τοῦ σκήνους ἀπὸ Νικομηδείας ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἐν παλατίῳ. Pin.4.67 Ὅπως καὶ μετὰ θάνατον ὑπὸ κομήτων καὶ λοιπῶν καθὼς καὶ ἐν τῷ ζῆν ἐτιμᾶτο. Pin.4.68 Ὅπως αὐγούστους εἶναι λοιπὸν τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ τὸ στρατόπεδον ἔκρινεν. Pin.4.69 Ῥώμης ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίνῳ πένθος καὶ διὰ τῶν εἰκόνων τιμὴ μετὰ θάνατον. Pin.4.70 Κατάθεσις τοῦ σκηνώματος ὑπὸ Κωνσταντίου παιδὸς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει. Pin.4.71 Σύναξις ἐν τῷ καλουμένῳ μαρτυρίῳ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐπὶ τῇ Κωνσταντίνου τελευτῇ. Pin.4.72 Περὶ φοίνικος ὀρνέου. Pin.4.73 Ὅπως ἐν νομίσμασιν ὡς εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀνιόντα Κωνσταντῖνον ἐνεχάρασσον. Pin.4.74 Ὅτι τιμηθεὶς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ θεὸς δικαίως αὐτὸν ἀντετίμησεν. Pin.4.75 Ὅτι τῶν προγενομένων Ῥωμαίων βασιλέων εὐσεβέστερος Κωνσταντῖνος. Pin.4.76n Τοῦ τετάρτου λόγου τὰ κεφάλαια.

1.t.1 ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΜΦΙΛΟΥ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΒΙΟΝ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΥ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ

ΛΟΓΟΣ Α 1.1.1 Ἄρτι μὲν τῷ μεγάλῳ βασιλεῖ παντοίων δεκάδων διττῶν τε καὶ τριττῶν περιόδους ἐν ἑορτῶν εὐωχίαις πᾶν γένος ἀνθρώπων ἐπανηγύριζεν, ἄρτι δὲ καὶ ἡμεῖς αὐτοὶ τὸν καλλίνικον, μέσον ἀπολαβόντες θεοῦ λειτουργῶν συνόδου, εἰκοσαετηρικοῖς ὕμνοις ἐγεραίρομεν, ἤδη δὲ καὶ τριακονταετηρικοὺς αὐτῷ λόγων πλέξαντες στεφάνους, ἐν αὐτοῖς πρώην βασιλείοις τὴν ἱερὰν κεφαλὴν ἀν1.1.2 εστέφομεν· νυνὶ δ' ὁ λόγος ἡμῖν ἀμηχανῶν ἕστηκε, ποθῶν μέν τι τῶν συνήθων προσφθέγξασθαι, ἀπορῶν δ' ὅπῃ καὶ τράποιτο μόνῳ τε τῷ θαύματι τῆς ξενιζούσης ὄψεως καταπεπληγμένος. ὅπῃ γὰρ ἀτενὲς ἐμβλέψειεν, ἤν τε πρὸς ἕω ἤν τε πρὸς ἑσπέραν, ἤν τ' ἐπὶ γῆς αὐτῆς ὅλης ἤν τε πρὸς οὐρανὸν αὐτόν, πάντῃ καὶ πανταχοῦ