# Historia ecclesiastica 5.32.1

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 32. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.32.1

ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἑτέρωθεν αὐτοῦ τὴν παρρησίαν μαθεῖν. Γαϊνάς τις, Σκύθης μὲν τὸ γένος, βαρβαρικώτερος δὲ τὴν γνώμην, φρονήματι τυραννικῷ κεχρημένος ἐστρατήγει κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον, πολλοὺς μὲν καὶ τῶν ὁμοφύλων ὑπηκόους ἔχων, ἄγων δὲ μετὰ τούτων καὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων τήν τε ἱππικὴν καὶ τὴν πεζὴν στρατιάν. ἐπεφρίκεσαν δὲ αὐτὸν οὐ μόνον οἱ ἄλλοι πάντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν μελετωμένην ὑφορώμενος τυραννίδα.

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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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