# Historia ecclesiastica 2.3.7

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/2.3.7

Τούτου δὲ πρόφασιν ἡγοῦμαι, τὸ τοῦ οἰκιστῆρος καὶ τὸ τῆς πόλεως θεοφιλὲς, καὶ τῶν οἰκητόρων τὸν περὶ τοὺς ἐνδεἑ̣?ʼ ἔλεον καὶ φιλοτιμίαν. Εἰς τοσοῦτον γὰρ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως ἐπαγωγός ἐστιν, ὡς πολλοὺς μὲν Ἰουδαίους, Ἕλληνας δὲ σχεδὸν ἅπαντας αὐτόθι χριστιανίζειν. Ἀρξαμένη δὲ βασιλεύειν καθ̓ ὃν συνέβη χρόνον καὶ τὴν θρησκείαν εἰς πλῆθος ἐπιδιδόναι, οὔτε βωμῶν, οὔτε Ἑλληνικῶν ναῶν ἢ θυσιῶν ἐπειράθη, πλὴν ὅσον παρὰ Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ βασιλεύσαντος ὕστερον πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐπεχειρήθη, καὶ αὐτίκα ἀπέσβη. Ταύτην μὲν οὖν ὡσεί τινα νεοπαγῆ Χριστοῦ πόλιν καὶ ὁμώνυμον ἑαυτῷ γεραίρων Κωνσταντῖνος,

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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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