# Historia ecclesiastica 2.22.1

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 2, Chapter 22. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/2.22.1

Ἀθανασίῳ δὲ τῶν ἐπιγενομένων δυσχερῶν πρῶτοι γεγόνασιν αἴτιοι. Πλείστην γὰρ ἔχοντες παρὰ βασιλεῖ παρρησίαν καὶ δύναμιν, τὸν Ἄρειον μὲν ὡς ὁμόδοξον καὶ φίλον, κατάγειν εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐσπούδαζον: τὸν δὲ, τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκβαλεῖν, ὡς ἐναντίον αὐτοῖς γινόμενον. Διαβάλλουσιν οὖν αὐτὸν πρὸς Κωνσταντῖνον, ὡς στάσεων καὶ θορύβων αἴτιον τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ γενόμενον, καὶ εἵργοντα τοὺς βουλομένους εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν εἰσιέναι, ἐξὸν πάντας ὁμονοεῖν, εἰ τοῦτο μόνον συγχωρηθείη.

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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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