# Historia ecclesiastica 1.11.7

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 11. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.11.7

Τὸ δὲ ἄρα οὐκ ἔμελλεν ἐπὶ πολὺ λήσειν. Μετὰ γάρ τινα χρόνον, ὁ μὲν πάλιν ἐδεῖτο δανείζεσθαι: ὁ δὲ πρὸς τὸ ταμιεῖον ἀπέπεμπεν, ἐξουσίαν δοὺς αὐτὸν ἑαυτῷ παραμετρεῖν ὅσον βούλεται. Κενὸν δὲ τὸν οἶκον ἰδὼν, ἐμήνυσε τῷ Σπυρίδωνι. Ὁ δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν, θαυμαστὸν ἄρα, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, ἔφη, πῶς σοι μόνῳ ἔδοξε τὸ ταμιεῖον ἐπιλείπειν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια. Σκόπει οὖν κατὰ σαυτὸν, μὴ χρησάμενος ἄλλοτε, τὰ πρῶτα οὐκ ἀπέδωκας: εἰ γὰρ μὴ τοῦτό ἐστιν, πάντως οὐκ ἀποτεύξῃ ὧν δέῃ: καὶ πάλιν ἴθι θαρρῶν ὡς εὑρήσων. Καὶ ὁ μὲν οὕτω φωραθεὶς κατεμήνυσε τὴν ἁμαρτίαν.

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Sozomenus, Salaminius Hermias, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Robert Hussey. 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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