# Historia ecclesiastica 3.16.1

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 3, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/3.16.1

Ἐώκει δὲ πάντας παρευδοκιμεῖν, καὶ ἐς τὰ μάλιστα τὴν καθόλου ἐκκλησίαν σεμνύνειν, Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Σύρος: ὃς ἐκ Νισίβεως ἢ τῶν τῇδε χωρίων τὸ γένος εἶχεν, ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ δὲ μοναστικῇ τὸν βίον ἐξασκήσας, οὔτε μαθὼν, οὔτε προσδοκηθεὶς τοιοῦτος εἶναι, ἐξαπίνης ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον παιδείας κατὰ τὴν Σύρων φωνὴν ἐπέδωκεν, ὡς φιλοσοφίας μὲν τῶν ἄκρων ἐφικέσθαι θεωρημάτων: εὐκολίᾳ δὲ καὶ λαμπρότητι λόγου, καὶ τῷ πυκνῷ καὶ σώφρονι τῶν νοημάτων, ὑπερβαλέσθαι τοὺς παῤ Ἕλλησιν εὐδοκιμωτάτους συγγραφέας.

---

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/.