# Historia ecclesiastica 3.16.11

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/3.16.11

ἐδείπνησεν. Ὅσον δὲ κενῆς ἐκράτει δόξης, ἐντεῦθεν ἰστέον. Ποτὲ ψῆφον ἐπισκοπῆς ἐνηνόχασιν ἐπ’ αὐτόν τινες, καὶ συλλαβεῖν ἐπειρῶντο, ὡς ἐπὶ τὴν χειροτονίαν ἄξοντες: αὐτίκα δὲ αἰσθόμενος, εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐνέβαλε, καὶ οἷα παραπαίων ἐδείκνυ ἑαυτὸν, ἀτάκτως βαδίζων, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ἐπισύρων, καὶ δημοσίᾳ ἐσθίων: ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔξω φρενῶν εἶναι νομίσαντες οἱ συλληψόμενοι τῆς ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὁρμῆς ἀνεκόπησαν, καιρὸν εὑρὼν ἀπέδρασε,

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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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