# Ab excessu divi Marci 1.14.8

Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, Book 1, Chapter 14. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/herodian/ab-excessu-divi-marci/1.14.8

ταῦτα καὶ δημοσίᾳ δεῖξαι ἐτόλμησεν. ἐς τοσοῦτόν τε μανίας καὶ παροινίας προυχώρησεν ὡς πρῶτον μὲν τὴν πατρῴαν προσηγορίαν παραιτήσασθαι, ἀντὶ δὲ Κομμόδου καὶ Μάρκου υἱοῦ Ἡρακλέα τε καὶ Διὸς υἱὸν αὑτὸν κελεύσας καλεῖσθαι, ἀποδυσάμενός τε τὸ Ῥωμαίων καὶ βασίλειον σχῆμα λεοντῆν ἐπεστρώννυτο, καὶ ῥόπαλον μετὰ χεῖρας φέρων: ἀμφιέννυτό τε ἁλουργεῖς καὶ χρυσοϋφεῖς ἐσθῆτας, ὡς εἶναι καταγέλαστον αὐτὸν ὑφ̓ ἑνὶ σχήματι καὶ θηλειῶν πολυτέλειαν καὶ

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Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, ed. Immanuel Bekker. 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.
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