# Historia ecclesiastica 4.19.6

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 19. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/4.19.6

τοῦ δὲ ὑπάρχου χαλεπήναντος καὶ ἀνόητον εἶναι φήσαντος, ὁ θεῖος ἔφη Βασίλειος· ταύτην ἔχειν εἰς ἀεὶ τὴν ἄνοιαν εὔχομαι«. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐξελθεῖν προσετάχθη καὶ τὸ πρακτέον βουλεύσασθαι καὶ τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ δηλῶσαι τὴν γνώμην (συνῆπτο δὲ τοῖς λόγοις καὶ ἀπειλή), φάναι λέγεται ὁ πανεύφημος ἐκεῖνος ἀνήρ· »ἐγὼ μὲν ὁ αὐτός σοι καὶ αὔριον ἥξω· σὺ δὲ μὴ μεταβάλῃς τὴν γνώμην, ἀλλὰ χρῆσαι ταῖς ἀπειλαῖς«.

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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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