# Ab excessu divi Marci 8.4.8

Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, Book 8, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/herodian/ab-excessu-divi-marci/8.4.8

ὡς μὴ μετέχειν τῆς ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος μάχης. τὰ μὲν γὰρ προάστεια, καὶ εἴ τι τῶν πυλῶν ἔξωθεν ἦν, ὑπὸ τοῦ Μαξιμίνου στρατοῦ κατέστραπτο, τῇ τε ξυλείᾳ τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ἐς τὰς μηχανὰς κατεκέχρηντο. ἐβιάζοντο δὲ τοῦ τείχους κἂν μέρος τι καθελεῖν, ἵν̓ ἐπεισελθὼν ὁ στρατὸς πάντα τε διαρπάσῃ καὶ κατασκάψας τὴν πόλιν μηλόβοτον καὶ ἔρημον τὴν χώραν καταλείπῃ: οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄλλως αὐτῷ τὴν ἐπὶ Ῥώμην ὁδὸν εὐπρεπῆ καὶ ἔνδοξον ἔσεσθαι, μὴ τῆς πρώτης ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ πόλεως ἀντιστάσης καθαιρεθείσης.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/.