# Historia ecclesiastica 5.20.1

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/5.20.1

Ἐκ τούτου δὲ κινηθεὶς πρὸς ὀργὴν ὁ βασιλεὺς ὡς ὑβρισμένος, τιμωρεῖσθαι τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς ἐβεβούλευτο. Σαλούστιος δὲ ὁ τὴν ὕπαρχον ἐξουσίαν ἐπιτετραμμένος, καίπερ Ἕλλην ὑπάρχων, οὐκ ἐπῄνεσε τὴν βουλήν: ἀντιτείνειν δὲ μὴ ἔχων, τὸ βασιλέως ἐπίταγμα εἰς ἔργον ἦγε.

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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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