# Historia ecclesiastica 4.23.4

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/4.23.4

πρῶτον ὕπαρχον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἀπέφῃνεν. Ὕστερον δὲ καὶ αὐτοῦ Κωνσταντίου σὺν τοῖς ἄρχουσι διαγνόντος, φωρᾶται Ἀέτιος κακόνους ὢν περὶ τὴν πίστιν, ὡς καὶ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ὡς ἐπὶ βλασφήμοις αὐτοῦ λόγοις χαλεπῇναι. Λέγεται δὲ τοὺς περὶ Ἀκάκιον, ἄγνοιαν σκηπτομένους τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς τοιαύτης αἱρέσεως, ἐπίτηδες σπουδάσαι τὸν βασιλέα καὶ τοὺς ἀμφ̓ αὐτὸν δικάσαι: ἀκαταμάχητον ἔσεσθαι τοῖς λόγοις τὸν Ἀέτιον οἰηθέντας,

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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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