# Historia ecclesiastica 5.37.5

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 37. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.37.5

Τοιουτότροπόν τι κἀν τῷ Περσικῷ πολέμῳ πεποίηκεν. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι τὴν ῾Ρωμαίων ἀσχολίαν μεμαθηκότες κατὰ τῶν άστυγειτόνων ἐστράταυσαν, τὰς περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης παραβεβηκότες σπονδάς, ἐπεκούρει δὲ τοῖς πολεμουμένοις οὐδείς (τῇ γὰρ εἰρήνῃ τεθαρρηκὼς ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς ἑτέρους πολέμους καὶ τοὺς στρατηγοὺς καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐξέπεμψεν), ὑετῷ λαβροτάτῳ καὶ χαλάζῃ βαλὼν μεγίστῃ τὴν ἐπὶ πρόσω πορείαν ἐκώλυσε καὶ τὸν τῶν ἵππων ἐπέδησε δρόμον·

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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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