# Historia ecclesiastica 3.14.36

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 3, Chapter 14. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/3.14.36

Ἐντεῦθεν δὲ λόγος, Εὐστάθιον ἐπιδεικνύμενον ὡς οὐκ αὐθαδείας ἕνεκα, ἀλλὰ τῆς κατὰ Θεὸν ἀσκήσεως εἰσηγεῖτο ταῦτα καὶ ἐπιτηδεύοι, ἀμεῖψαι τὴν στολὴν, καὶ παραπλησίως τοῖς ἄλλοις ἱερεῦσι τὰς προόδους ποιήσασθαι. Τοιοῦτος δὴ τὰ περὶ τὸν βίον ὑπάρχων, καὶ ἐπὶ λόγοις ἐθαυμάζετο: τὸ δὲ ἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, ἐγένετο λέγειν μὲν οὐ δεινός: οὐδὲ γὰρ τὴν ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐπιστήμην ἐξήσκητο: τὸ δὲ ἦθος θαυμάσιος, καὶ πείθειν ἱκανώτατος: ὡς καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν ἐκπορνευομένων ἀνδρῶν καὶ γυναικῶν μεταπεῖσαι σώφρονα καὶ σπουδαῖον βίον ἀναλαβεῖν.

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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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