# Historia ecclesiastica 5.19.5

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 19. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/5.19.5

καὶ τῷ ἐν Δάφνῃ ναῷ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, ἄξιον ἀφηγήσασθαι. Ἄρχομαι δὲ ἐντεῦθεν. Δάφνη, τὸ ἐπίσημον τῆς Ἀντιοχείας προάστειον, κομᾷ μὲν ἄλσει κυπαρίσσων πολλῶν: ποικίλλεται δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις φυτοῖς ἀναμὶξ ταῖς κυπαρίσσοις. Ὑπὸ δὲ τοῖς δένδρεσιν, ἀμοιβαδὸν τῶν ὡρῶν εὐώδη καὶ παντοδαπὰ εἴδη ἀνθῶν ἡ γῆ φέρει. Ὀροφὴ δέ τις μᾶλλον ἢ σκιὰ πανταχοῦ τὸν χῶρον περίκειται, τῇ πυκνότητι τῶν κλάδων καὶ τῶν φύλλων μὴ συγχωροῦσα τὴν ἀκτῖνα τῷ ἐδάφει ἐμβάλλειν: ἡδύς τε καὶ λίαν ἐπέραστός ἐστιν, ἀφθονίᾳ τε καὶ κάλλει ὑδάτων, καὶ ὡρῶν εὐκρασίᾳ, καὶ προσηνῶν ἀνέμων πνοαῖς.

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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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