1

Eusebius Hist. Eccles. IV,

6 (20The Jewish siege under Hadrian20):

And indeed, when the revolt of the Jews again advanced to a great and extensive degree, Rufus, governor of Judea, with a military force sent to him by the emperor, attacked them unsparingly, using their desperation, destroying myriads of men, women, and children at once, and enslaving their lands by the law of war. At that time, the leader of the Jews was a man named Bar Kokhba, which means "star"; in other respects a murderous and brigandish kind of man, but in his name, as if over slaves, he made the prodigious claim that he had come down to them as a luminary from heaven to shine upon them in their afflictions. When the war reached its height in the eighteenth year of Hadrian's reign, near the city of Biththera, which was very strongly fortified, not very far distant from Jerusalem, and the siege from without became protracted, and the rebels were driven to the last extremity of destruction by famine and thirst, and the author of their madness paid the deserved penalty, from that time on the whole nation was completely forbidden to set foot on the land around Jerusalem by a decree of law and ordinances of Hadrian, who commanded that they should not even see from a distance their ancestral soil, as 20Aristo of Pella20 relates. Thus, when the city came to be desolate of the Jewish nation and utterly destroyed of its former inhabitants, and was settled by a foreign people, the Roman city which was subsequently established changed its name, and in honor of the reigning emperor Aelius Hadrianus, is called Aelia.

1

Eusebius Hist. Eccles. IV,

6 (20Ἡ κατ' Ἀδριανὸν Ἰουδαίων πολιορκία20):

Καὶ δὴ τὰ τῆς Ἰουδαίων ἀποστασίας αὖθις εἰς μέγα καὶ πολὺ προελθούσης,

Ῥοῦφος ἐπάρχων τῆς Ἰουδαίας, στρατιωτικῆς αὐτῷ συμμαχίας ὑπὸ βασιλέως πεμφθείσης, ταῖς ἀπονοίαις αὐτῶν ἀφειδῶς χρώμενος ἐπεξῄει, μυριάδας ἀθρόως ἀνδρῶν ὁμοῦ καὶ παίδων καὶ γυναικῶν διαφθείρων, πολέμου δὲ νόμῳ τὰς χώρας αὐτῶν ἐξανδραποδιζόμενος. Ἐστρατήγει δὲ Ἰουδαίων τηνικαῦτα Βαρχωχεβᾶς ὄνομα, ὃ δὴ ἀστέρα δηλοῖ· τὰ μὲν ἄλλα φονικὸς καὶ λῃστρικός τις ἀνὴρ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ προσηγορίᾳ οἷα ἐπ' ἀνδραπόδων, ὡς δὴ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ φωστὴρ αὐτοῖς κατεληλυθὼς, κακουμένοις τε ἐπιλάμψαι τερατευόμενος. Ἀκμάσαντος δὲ τοῦ πολέμου ἔτους ὀκτωκαιδεκάτου τῆς ἡγεμονίας Ἀδριανοῦ κατὰ Βίθθηρα πόλιν, ἥτις ἦν ὀχυρωτάτη, τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων οὐ σφόδρα πόρρω διεστῶσα, τῆς τε ἔξωθεν πολιορκίας χρονίου γενομένης, λιμῷ τε καὶ δίψει τῶν νεωτεροποιῶν εἰς ἔσχατον ὀλέθρου περιελαθέντων, καὶ τοῦ τῆς ἀπονοίας αὐτοῖς αἰτίου τὴν ἀξίαν ἐκτίσαντος δίκην, τὸ πᾶν ἔθνος ἐξ ἐκείνου καὶ τῆς περὶ τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα γῆς πάμπολυ ἐπιβαίνειν εἴργεται νόμου δόγματι καὶ διατάξεσιν Ἀδριανοῦ, ὡς ἂν μηδ' ἐξ ἀπόπτου θεωροῖεν τὸ πατρῷον ἔδαφος ἐγκελευσαμένου, [ὡς] 20Ἀρίστων ὁ Πελλαῖος20 ἱστορεῖ. Οὕτω δὴ τῆς πόλεως εἰς ἐρημίαν τοῦ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους καὶ πολυτελῆ φθορὰν τῶν πάλαι οἰκητόρων ἐλθούσης, ἐξ ἀλλοφύλου τε γένους συνοικισθείσης, ἡ μετέπειτα συστᾶσα Ῥωμαϊκὴ πόλις τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν ἀμείψασα, εἰς τὴν τοῦ κρατοῦντος Αἰλίου Ἀδριανοῦ τιμὴν, Αἰλία προσαγορεύεται.