# Historia ecclesiastica 4.25.4

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 25. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/4.25.4

καὶ τὴν μὲν τοῦ γένους οὐκ ἐλογίζετο περιφάνειαν, τὴν δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆς πίστεως ταλαιπωρίαν ἀσπασίως ὑπέμενεν. Φλαβιανὸς δὲ ὁ ἄριστος ἐξ εὐπατριδῶν μὲν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπεφύκει, εὐγένειαν δὲ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ὑπελάμβανε μόνην, καὶ οἷόν τις παιδοτρίβης τὸν μέγαν Διόδωρον καθάπερ τινὰ πένταθλον ἤλειφεν ἀθλητήν κατ’ ἐκεῖνον γὰρ τὸν καιρὸν ἐν μὲν τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς οὐκ ἐδημηγόρει συγγόγοις, τοῖς δὲ τοῦτο δρῶσι πολλὴν παρεῖχεν ἀφθονίαν ἐνθυμημάτων τε καὶ γραφικῶν νοημάτων,

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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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