# Historia ecclesiastica 1.17.3

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.17.3

Ἦσαν δὲ ἐπίσκοποι ὑπὲρ ἀμφὶ τριακόσιοι εἴκοσι: πρεσβυτέρων τε καὶ διακόνων ὡς εἰκὸς ἑπομένων οὐκ ἦν ὀλίγον πλῆθος. Συμπαρῆσαν δὲ αὐτοῖς ἄνδρες διαλέξεων ἔμπειροι, ἐκείνοις βοηθεῖν λόγοις σπουδάζοντες. Οἷα δὲ φιλεῖ γίνεσθαι, πολλοὶ τῶν ἱερέων, ὡς ὑπὲρ ἰδίων πραγμάτων ἀγωνίσασθαι συνελθόντες, καιρὸν ἔχειν ἐνόμισαν τῆς τῶν λυπούντων διορθώσεως: καὶ περὶ ὧν ἕκαστος τῶν ἄλλων ἐμέμφετο, βιβλίον ἐπιδοὺς βασιλεῖ, τὰ εἰς αὐτὸν ἡμαρτημένα προσήγγελλεν.

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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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