Library Eusebius of Caesarea Preparation for the Gospel

Book 12, Chapter 39

[PLATO] [117] 'And in a word, let not the disgrace and punishment of a father follow upon any of the children, except when any one's father and grandfather and great-grandfather in succession have paid the penalty of death.'

English translation by E. H. Gifford, Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicae Praeparationis Libri XV (Oxford, 1903). Public domain. Digital text via Roger Pearse / tertullian.org.