# Historia ecclesiastica 2.3.5

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 2, Chapter 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/2.3.5

Φόρους δὲ τάξας, τοὺς μὲν εἰς οἰκοδομὰς καὶ κάλλη τῆς πόλεως, τοὺς δὲ εἰς ἀποτροφὴν τῶν πολιτῶν, ἅπασί τε τοῖς ἄλλοις τὰ περὶ τὴν πόλιν διαθεὶς, ἱπποδρόμῳ τε καὶ κρήναις καὶ στοαῖς καὶ λοιποῖς οἰκοδομήμασι φιλοτίμως κοσμήσας, νέαν Ῥώμην Κωνσταντινούπολιν ὠνόμασε: καὶ βασιλίδα κατέστησε τῶν ὅσοι τὴν Ῥωμαίων ὑπήκοον γῆν οἰκοῦσι πρὸς ἄρκτον καὶ νότον καὶ ἥλιον ἀνίσχοντα, καὶ τὰ ἐν μέσῳ πελάγη, ἐκ τῶν παρὰ τὸν Ἴστρον πόλεων, καὶ Ἐπιδάμνου, τῶν πρὸς τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ, μέχρι Κυρήνης καὶ τῶν τῇδε Λιβύων παρὰ τὸ Βόρειον καλούμενον.

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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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