# Historia Ecclesiastica 40.8

Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ΛΟΓΟΣ ς., Chapter 40. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/40.8

καὶ τότε συνεὶς ἐφ’ ᾧ παρῆσαν ἀνέκραγον δεόμενος αὐτῶν καὶ “ἱκετεύων ἀπιέναι καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐὰν, εἰ δὲ βούλονταί τι χρηστὸν ἐργάσασθαι, τοὺς ἀπάγοντάς με φθάσαι, “καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοὺς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀποτεμεῖν ἠξίουν. “καὶ τοιαῦτα βοῶντος, ὡς ἴσασιν οἱ κοινωνοί μου καὶ “μέτοχοι πάντων γενόμενοι, ἀνίστασαν πρὸς βίαν, “κἀγὼ μὲν παρῆκα ἐμαυτὸν ὕπτιον εἰς τοὔδαφος, οἱ “δὲ διαλαβόντες χειρῶν καὶ ποδῶν σύροντες “γαγον.

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Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2018.tlg002.local002/.