The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories
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The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories
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Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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1577.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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CAP. XXXVII.
The besieginge of Amida and buylding of Daras.
THe Persians moreouer breakinge their league and passinge beyonde their proper boundes were led by Cabades their kinge into Armenia: they ouercame the countrey: they tooke Theodosiopolis and came to Amida, a strong city in Mesopotamia and besieged it, the which was afterwards recouered by the Emperour of Rome, not without great paine and trouble. If a∣ny* 1.1 be disposed to know exquisitly all the circumstances thereof, and as commonly we say, to haue all at his fingers endes, let him reade Eustathius, where the whole is layde downe in writinge with great skill and diligence: who when he had continued the historie vnto the twelfe yeare of Ana∣stasius raigne, and the time which our penne doth now prosecute, he knit vp his story and departed this life. When this battaile was ended, Anastasius made of a wilde countrey a ciuill towne, in a place of Mesopotamia called Daras, lyinge in the furthest parts of the Romaine dominions, as a bounde betweene one countrey and an other: walled it very strongly about: erected goodly and gorgeous buyldings: founded holy Churches: princely towers, publique baths, with diuers o∣ther such monuments wherewith cities are set forth and adorned. The report goeth that the place* 1.2 was called Daras because Darius was there ouercome by Alexander king of Macedonia, the sonne of Philip.
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* 1.1
Eustathius the historio∣grapher died Anno Do••. 504.