# Historia ecclesiastica 1.18.7

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 18. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.18.7

Ἀναδεξαμένου δὲ ἑνὸς τὸν λόγον, ἐν ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἀλέξανδρος, ἐπιτάττω σοι μὴ λαλεῖν. Ἅμα δὲ τῷ λόγῳ, καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος αὐτίκα τὸ στόμα πεδηθεὶς ἐσιώπα. Ἆῤ οὖν δίκαιον ἀναλογίσασθαι, πότερον μεῖζον ἐν παραδόξοις, ἄνθρωπον, καὶ ταῦτα φιλόσοφον, οὕτω ῥᾳδίως ἀφελέσθαι τοῦ λόγου, ἢ λίθον βίᾳ λόγου τῇ χειρὶ διελθεῖν, ὃ πρός τινων ἐπὶ Ἰουλιανῷ τῷ καλουμένῳ Χαλδαίῳ κεκομπολογῆσθαι ἀκήκοα: καὶ τὰ μὲν ὧδε ἐπυθόμην.

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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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