# Historia ecclesiastica 7.25.5

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 7, Chapter 25. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/7.25.5

καὶ ἐξ ὁδοῦ ἀφικόμενοι, ἀδοκήτως ἥλωσαν. Καὶ πάθη ἐλεεινὰ συνέβη, ἐν οἷς καὶ τόδε: ἔμπορος ἀντὶ δύο παίδων αὐτοῦ συλληφθέντων, προσαγαγὼν ἑαυτὸν, ἀποθανεῖν ἐδεῖτο: τοὺς δὲ σώζεσθαι: καὶ μισθὸν τούτου χρυσίον ὅσον εἶχε προΐσχετο τοῖς στρατιώταις. Οἱ δὲ, τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῆς συμφορᾶς ἐλεήσαντες, ἀντὶ ἑνὸς οὗ ἂν ἑλεῖται τῶν υἱέων, τὴν ἱκεσίαν προσίεντο: τοὺς δὲ δύο ἀφιέναι, ὡς ἐπιλείποντος τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ, οὐκ ἀκίνδυνον σφίσιν ἔφασαν.

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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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