# Historia ecclesiastica 2.3.3-4

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, 2.3.3 to 2.3.4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/2.3.3

Ταῦτα δὲ αὐτῷ πονοῦντι, νύκτωρ ἐπιφανεὶς ὁ Θεὸς, ἔχρησεν ἕτερον ἐπιζητεῖν τόπον. Καὶ κινήσας αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ Βυζάντιον τῆς Θρᾴκης, πέραν Χαλκηδόνος τῆς Βιθυνῶν, ταύτην αὐτῷ οἰκίζειν ἀπέφῃνε πόλιν, καὶ τῆς Κωνσταντίνου ἐπωνυμίας ἀξιοῦν. Ὁ δὲ, τοῖς τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγοις πεισθεὶς, τὴν πρὶν Βυζάντιον προσαγορευομένην εἰς εὐρυχωρίαν ἐκτείνας, μεγίστοις τείχεσι περιέβαλεν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ τοὺς αὐτόχθονας οὐχ ἱκανοὺς ἐνόμισεν πολίτας τῷ μεγέθει τῆς πόλεως, μεγίστας οἰκίας ἀνὰ τὰς ἀγυιὰς σποράδην οἰκοδομήσας, ἄνδρας ἐν λόγῳ σὺν τοῖς οἰκείοις δεσπότας ποιήσας, ἐν ταύταις κατῴκισε: τοὺς μὲν ἐκ τῆς πρεσβυτέρας Ῥώμης, τοὺς δὲ ἐξ ἑτέρων ἐθνῶν μετακαλεσάμενος.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2048.tlg001.local002/.