# Historia ecclesiastica 4.16.1-2

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, 4.16.1 to 4.16.2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/4.16.1

Ἐν μὲν οὖν τῷ Σιρμίῳ ταῦτα ἐγεγόνει: καὶ ἐδόκει τότε διὰ τὸν τοῦ βασιλέως φόβον ἀνατολὴ καὶ δύσις ὁμοφρονεῖν περὶ τὸ δόγμα. Περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ νεωτερισθέντων, καὶ τῆς Ἀετίου αἱρέσεως, ἔκρινεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπιτελέσαι σύνοδον ἐν Νικαίᾳ. Παραιτησαμένων δὲ τῶν ἀμφὶ Βασίλειον διὰ τὸ πάλαι ἐνθάδε τὴν περὶ τοῦ δόγματος συμβῆναι ζήτησιν, ἔδοξεν ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ τῆς Βιθυνίας: καὶ γράμμασιν εἰς ῥητὴν ἡμέραν μετὰ σπουδῆς καλεῖν τῶν ἀν̓ ἕκαστον ἔθνος ἐπισκόπων, οἳ συνιέναι ἐπιτηδειότεροι ἐδόκουν, καὶ νοεῖν καὶ λέγειν ἱκανοί: ὥστε ἀντὶ πάντων τῶν ἱερέων τοῦ ἔθνους,

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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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