# Historia ecclesiastica 5.12.1

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 12. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.12.1

Ταῦτα μὲν οἰὶ Γρατιανοῦ περιόντος ἐγένετο. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐκεῖνος ἔν τε πολέμοις ἀριστεύων καὶ τὰς πόλεις σωφρόνως τε καὶ δικαίως ἰθύνων ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς ἐτελεύτησε, παῖδας μὲν οὐ καταλιπὼν κληρονόμους τῆς βασιλείας, ἀδελφὸν δὲ κομιδῇ νέον ὁμώνυμον τοῦ πατρός, Μάξιμός τις τῆς Βαλεντινιανοῦ καταφρονήσας νεότητος ἥρπασε τὴν τῆς Ἐσπέρας ἡγεμονίαν.

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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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