# Historia ecclesiastica 1.5.4

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.5.4

Καὶ μάρτυρες πάλιν τούτου οἱ χρόνοι, καὶ οἱ νόμοι οὓς ὑπὲρ τῆς θρησκείας ἔθετο. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ῥᾳδίως ὡδίπως συγχωρήσομεν ἐντυχεῖν Σωπάτρῳ τὸν βασιλέα, ἢ δἰ ἐπιστολῆς αὐτοῦ πυθέσθαι περὶ ὧν ἐβούλετο, οὐ δήπου πιθανὸν ἦν τὸν φιλόσοφον ἀγνοεῖν, ὡς Ἡρακλῆς ὁ Ἀλκμήνης Ἀθήνῃσιν ἐκαθάρθη μετὰ τὴν τεκνοκτονίαν τοῖς Δήμητρος μυστηρίοις, καὶ μετὰ τὸν Ἰφίτου φόνον, ὃν ξένον καὶ φίλον ὄντα ἀδίκως ἀνεῖλεν.

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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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