According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Praeparatio Evangelica, Eratosthenes found the distance to the sun to be " σταδιων μυριαδας τετρακοσιας και οκτωκισμυριας " ( literally " of stadia myriads 400 and 80000 ").

According to Eusebius, the Jerusalem church was scattered twice, in AD70 and AD135, with the difference that from 70-130 the bishops of Jerusalem have evidently Jewish names, whereas after 135 the bishops of Aelia Capitolina appear to be Greeks.

According to Eusebius, the tomb exhibited a clear and visible proof that it was the tomb of Jesus.

According to the church historian Eusebius, the Quartodeciman Polycarp ( bishop of Smyrna, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist ) debated the question with Anicetus ( bishop of Rome ).

According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete.

According to Eusebius and Plutarch, Herodotus was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work and there may be some truth in this.

According to this view, 16 January was really the date of Marcellus ' death, the next occupant of the chair being Eusebius ( Neues Archiv, 1896, XXI, 350 – 3 ).

According to Valesius these were mainly Socrates and Sozomen ; Albert Guldenpenning's thorough research placed Rufinus first, and next to him, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, Sozomen, Sabinus, Philostorgius, Gregory Nazianzen, and, least of all, Socrates.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea ( Eccl.

According to chroniclers such as Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity.

According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching ( Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome ), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words " Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα ", En toutō níka, usually translated into Latin as " in hoc signo vinces ," both phrases have the literal meaning " In this sign, shall conquer ;" a more free translation would be " Through this sign shall conquer ".

According to Babylonian tradition, towards the end of his life, Nebuchadnezzar prophesied the impending ruin of the Chaldean Empire ( Berossus and Abydenus in Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica, 9. 41 ).

According to Eusebius, this turned what appeared to be a committed Christian into a man who feigned sympathy for the sect but who eventually exposed his true bloodthirsty pagan nature, only to be stopped by the virtuous Constantine.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea the outbreak of violence left Libya depopulated to such an extent that a few years later new colonies had to be established there by the emperor Hadrian just to maintain the viability of continued settlement.

According to Eusebius ( Ecc.

According to Eusebius, the Roman emperor Constantine I was not baptised until shortly before his death in the year 337.

According to Eusebius ' Church History, quoting Polycrates of Ephesus, churches in the Roman Province of Asia " always observed the day when the people put away the leaven ", the 14th of the lunar month of Nisan.

According to a legend first reported by Eusebius in the 4th century, Syriac King Abgar V Ukāmā was converted by Addai, who was one of the seventy-two disciples, sent to him by " Judas, who is also called Thomas "..

According to Eusebius of Caesarea the outbreak of violence left Libya depopulated to such an extent that a few years later new colonies had to be established there by the emperor Hadrian just to maintain the viability of continued settlement.

According to Eusebius, Theophilus quoted the Book of Revelation in his work against Hermogenes ; a very precarious allusion has been seen in ii.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea ( 1. 251 ), she was a daughter of Achaeus by an unnamed Greek mother.

According to Eusebius ' Chronicon, Manetho had suggested that the great age of antiquity in which the later Egyptians boasted had actually preceded the flood, and that they were really descended from Mizraim, who settled there anew.

According to Dionysius of Corinth, quoted by Eusebius, this Dionysius then became the second Bishop of Athens.

According to Eusebius Hegesippus said Matthew's Gospel was written in Syriac ( Ecclesiastical History 3: 22-24 ) a view Eusebius shared ( Theophania 4: 12 ).

According to T. C. Skeat they suggest Caesarea as a place in which the manuscript was made.

In his note on this phrase, the translator Herbert Moore says: " According to the ' Apostolic Canons ', only the lower orders of clergy were allowed to marry after their appointment to office ; the Council in Trullo ordered that a bishop's wife should retire to a convent, or become a deaconess ; that of Caesarea, that if a priest marries after ordination he must be degraded.

According to Josephus, the violence, which began at Caesarea in 66, was provoked by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea it was a refuge for Jerusalem Christians in the 1st century AD who were fleeing the Jewish – Roman wars.

According to the Bible, St. Paul was shipwrecked on an island which many scholars have identified as Malta on his voyage from Caesarea to Rome.

According to William of Tyre, Hugh's stepson Walter I Grenier, Lord of Caesarea ( Emelota's son through her first marriage to Eustace Grenier ) accused Hugh of treason and conspiracy at a meeting of the Haute Cour ; Walter possibly did this with the urging of Fulk himself.

According to al-Biladhuri, the main towns of the district, following its conquest by the Rashidun Caliphate, were Gaza, Sebastiya, Nablus, Caesarea, Ludd, Yibna, Imwas, Jaffa, Rafah, and Bayt Jibrin.

According to Eunapius, Acacius was born in Caesarea Palaestina at " about the same time as Libanius ".

According to David Albert Jones, this distinction appeared among Christian writers only in the late fourth and early fifth century, while the earlier writers made no distinction between formed and unformed, a distinction that Saint Basil of Caesarea explicitly rejected.

According to the Apostolic Constitutions ( 7. 46 ), the first Bishop of Caesarea was Zacchaeus the Publican.

According to myth, the Comoros islands were first visited by Phoenician sailors.

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

According to some sources, the name Bagheria ( by way of old Sicilian Baarìa ) originates from the Phoenician term Bayharia meaning " land that descends toward the sea.

According to Adrian Room ’ s book Place-names of the World, the name Etna is said to have originated from a Phoenician word meaning " furnace.

According to Virgil's Aeneid and other ancient sources, the legendary Queen Dido was a Phoenician from Asia Minor who sailed to North Africa and founded the city of Carthage.

According to the 19th century German classicist, Arnold Heeren: “ In the Greek geographers, for instance, we read of two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boased that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of Phoenician temples .” The people of Tyre in particular have long maintained Persian Gulf origins, and the similarity in the words “ Tylos ” and “ Tyre ” has been commented upon.

According to an old Cretan story, Europa was a Phoenician princess whom Zeus, having transformed himself into a white bull, abducted, and carried to Crete.

According to the geographer Claudius Ptolemy, the indigenes were the powerful Turdetani, in the valley of the Guadalquivir in the west, bordering on Lusitania, and the partly Hellenized Turduli with their city Baelon, in the hinterland behind the coastal Phoenician trading colonies, whose Punic inhabitants Ptolemy termed the " Bastuli ".

According to Eusebius, Philo discovered secret mythological writings of the ancient Phoenicians assembled by the Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon who, according to Eusebius / Philo, transcribed the sacred lore from pillars in the temples of Byblos.

According to Robin Lane Fox, it was borrowed by the Euboeans from the Phoenician shekel, which was of about the same weight and was also a fiftieth part of a mina.

According to the alphabet hypothesis, the shapes of the letters would have evolved from Proto-Sinaitic forms into Phoenician forms, but the names of the letters would have remained the same.

According to coin finds the name " Motya " is derived from Phoenician " Mtw " and is said to mean " wool-spinning center ".