# Historia Ecclesiastica 19.5

Gelasius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ΛΟΓΟΣ Γ, Chapter 19. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/gelasius/historia-ecclesiastica/19.5

>Βούλομαι δὲ ἤδη τοῦ προέδρου αὐτῆς τὴν φύσιν ἐξετάσαι. τί γὰρ >δὴ λέγει; »ἢ κατέχωμεν, φησίν, οὗ ἤδη ἐγκρατεῖς γεγόναμεν, ἢ γενέσθω >ὡς αὐτοὶ βουλόμεθα«. πέπτωκε, καὶ ταῦτα πέπτωκεν ἀναιρούμενος, >»δόλῳ, φησίν, ἢ δεινότητι πανουργίας«· οὐδὲν διαφέρει. σεμνὸν >μόνον ἡγεῖται, ὃ διὰ πονηρᾶς ἐπινοίας εἰς αὐλὸν εἰσερρύη·

---

Gelasius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. Gerhard Loeschke, Margret Heinemann. 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/tlg2768.tlg001.local001/.