# Historia ecclesiastica 3.16.17

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/3.16.17

καὶ ἀγνοίας αὐτῶν τε τῶν ἀνδρῶν, καὶ ὧν κατώρθωσαν. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀνὰ τὰς ἐρήμους ἐλάνθανον: οἱ δὲ καὶ ἐν ὁμίλῳ πόλεων διατρίβοντες, εὐτελεῖς σφᾶς παρεῖχον φαίνεσθαι, καὶ τῶν πολλῶν μηδὲν διαφέροντας: ἀρετὴν μὲν ἐργαζόμενοι, κλέπτοντες δὲ τὴν ἀληθῆ περὶ αὐτῶν δόκησιν, ὥστε μὴ ἐπαινεῖσθαι παρὰ τῶν ἄλλων: πρὸς γὰρ τὰς ἀμοιβὰς τῶν ἐσομένων ἀγαθῶν τὸν νοῦν τείνοντες, μάρτυρα ὧν ἐπόνουν μόνον τὸν Θεὸν ἐποιοῦντο, τῆς δὲ ἔξωθεν δόξης οὐδεὶς αὐτοῖς λόγος ἦν.

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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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