# Praeperatio Evangelica 17.9

Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝ, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/praeperatio-evangelica/17.9

καὶ οἱ τρισμύριοι φύλακες μερόπων ἀνθρώπων, οἱ δὴ ποιμένες καὶ σωτῆρες, βασιλεῖς τε καὶ πατέρες καὶ κύριοι, τοῖς ἐχθροῖς καὶ πολεμίοις καὶ ἀγρίοις θηρσὶν ἀνηλεῶς οὕτως καὶ ὠμῶς ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν τὰ φίλτατα παραδώσουσιν, οὐχὶ δὲ προπολεμήσουσιν ὑπερασπίζοντες τῶν προσφύγων, καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἐχθροὺς καὶ πονηροὺς δαίμονας τῆς ἀνθρώπων ἀγέλης μακρὰν ὥσπερ τινὰς ἀγρίους καὶ ὠμοβόρους θῆρας ἀποδιώ- ξουσι, διδάξουσι δὲ πάντα ἄνθρωπον μυρίων θεῶν καὶ δαιμόνων ἀγαθῶν πλήθει προσῳκειωμένων ἐπιθαρσοῦντα, καὶ τοῖς οὐ μόνον κρείττοσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλείοσιν καὶ μεγίστοις θεοῖς καθωσιωμένον, σμικρὰ, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ μηδὲν ἐπιστρέφεσθαι τῆς τῶν πονηρῶν δαιμόνων ἀσθενείας;

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Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, 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.tlg001.local001/.