# Historia ecclesiastica 5.16.3

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.16.3

ὁ δὲ βασιλεύς, ἐπιλησθῆναι νομίσας τὸν Ἀμφιλόχιον, προσελθεῖν καὶ φιλῆσαι προσέταξε τὸν υἱόν· ὁ δὲ ἀποχρῆν ἔφη τὴν αὐτῷ παρ’ αὐτοῦ προσενεχθεῖσαν τιμήν. ὁ δὲ δυσχεράνας οἰκείαν ἐκάλει παροινίαν τὴν τοῦ παιδὸς ἀτιμίαν. τηνικαῦτα λοιπὸν ὁ σοφώτατος Ἀμφιλόχιος ἐκκαλύπτει τὸν τοῦ γεγενημένου σκοπὸν καὶ βοῶν ἔφη· »ὁρᾷς, ὠ βασιλεῦ, ὅπως οὐ φέρεις τὴν τοῦ παιδὸς ἀτιμίαν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς εἰς τοῦτον παροινοῦσι χαλεπαίνεις πικρῶς.

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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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