# Ab excessu divi Marci 5.1.4

Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, Book 5, Chapter 1. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/herodian/ab-excessu-divi-marci/5.1.4

δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τὸ πρᾶον καὶ μέτριον προσφιλές. τὸν γοῦν πρὸς Παρθυαίους πόλεμον, μέγιστόν τε ὄντα καὶ ἐφ̓ ᾧ πᾶσα Ῥωμαίων ἐσάλευεν ἀρχή, κατελύσαμεν καὶ ἐν οἷς ἀνδρείως παραταξάμενοι οὐδέν τι ἡττήμεθα, καὶ ἐν οἷς σπείσαντες μετὰ πολλῆς δυνάμεως ἐλθόντα μέγαν βασιλέα πιστὸν φίλον ἀντ̓ ἐχθροῦ δυσμάχου ἐποιήσαμεν. ἐμοῦ δὲ κρατοῦντος ἐν ἀδείᾳ τε καὶ ἀναιμωτὶ πάντες βιώσονται, ἀριστοκρατία τε

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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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