Chronicle

There were two different editions of the Chronicle. The first was completed in 311 and covered the period from Abraham to 311, that is, the year of the death of the emperor Galerius. The second edition was completed ca. 325 and went down to 325 (Burgess 1997). Barnes (1981: 113) argues that Eusebius' first edition ended with 277, the second year of the emperor Probus. As indicated in its title (albeit in reverse order), Eusebius' Chronicle consisted of two parts: the first (the epitome) was a chronography (a series of lists of rulers and textual extracts needed to create a chronicle), the second (the canones) a chronicle stricto sensu, i.e. a concordance of different eras and regnal years combined with a a list of entries per year.

The first part of Eusebius' Chronicle, the chronography, is preserved in an Armenian translation and in a number of Greek fragments. The Armenian translation is dated at the end of the sixth or at the beginning of the seventh century. Dexter may have translated the epitome into Latin. The Latin translation by Jerome extended the canones until 378. The canones are  attested in two Syriac translations as well. The first one is dated c. 600. The second one has been inserted into the Chronicle of Zuqnin (c. 775).