# Historia ecclesiastica 2.8.18

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 2, Chapter 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/2.8.18

οἱ δὲ τοσούτῳ >φόβῳ τοῦ συνειδότος κατεσχέθησαν ὡς φυγεῖν αὐτούς, καὶ διὰ >φυγῆς τὴν συκοφαντίαν αὐτῶν ἐλέγξαι καὶ ἅπερ ἐπλημμέλησαν >τῶν δρασμῶν ὁμολογῆσαι. >Εἰ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα οὐ μόνον ἐκ τῶν προτέρων ἀλλὰ καὶ >τούτων ἡ κακοτροπία καὶ ἡ συκοφαντία αὐτῶν δείκνυται, ὅμως >μηδὲ ἐκ τῆς φυγῆς πρόφασίν τινα ἑτέρας κακουργίας >δυνηθῶσιν, ἐσκεψάμεθα κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀληθείας λόγον τὰ >ἐκείνων δραματουργηθέντα ἐξετάσαι.

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Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Léon Parmentier. 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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