# Ab excessu divi Marci 4.3.8

Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, Book 4, Chapter 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/herodian/ab-excessu-divi-marci/4.3.8

τῷ Γέτᾳ. ταῦτα δὴ αὐτῶν διατυπούντων οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι πάντες σκυθρωποῖς προσώποις ἐς γῆν ἔνευσαν: ἡ δὲ Ἰουλία γῆν μέν ἔφη καὶ θάλασσαν, ὦ τέκνα, εὑρίσκετε ὅπως νείμησθε, καὶ τὰς ἠπείρους, ὥς φατε, τὸ Πόντιον ῥεῖθρον διαιρεῖ: τὴν δὲ μητέρα πῶς ἂν διέλοισθε, καὶ πῶς ἡ ἀθλία ἐγὼ ἐς ἑκάτερον ὑμῶν νεμηθείην ἢ τμηθείην; πρῶτον δὴ ἐμὲ φονεύσατε, καὶ διελόντες ἑκάτερος παῤ ἑαυτῷ τὸ μέρος θαπτέτω: οὕτω γὰρ ἂν μετὰ γῆς καὶ θαλάττης ἐς ὑμᾶς

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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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