# Historia Nova 1.5.4

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 1, Chapter 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/1.5.4

οἵ τε γὰρ κόλακες παρὰ τούτου δωρεῶν καὶ τιμῶν ἀξιούμενοι τῶν μεγίστων ἀρχῶν ἐπιβαίνουσιν, οἵ τε ἐπιεικεῖς καὶ ἀπράγμονες μὴ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐκείνοις αἱρούμενοι βίον εἰκότως σχετλιάζουσιν οὐ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀπολαύοντες, ὥστε ἐκ τούτου τὰς μὲν πόλεις στάσεων πληροῦσθαι καὶ ταραχῶν, τὰ δὲ πολιτικὰ καὶ στρατιωτικὰ κέρδους ἥττοσιν ἄρχουσιν ἐκδιδόμενα καὶ τὸν ἐν εἰρήνῃ βίον λυπηρὸν καὶ ὀδυνηρὸν τοῖς χαριεστέροις ποιεῖν καὶ τῶν στρατιωτῶν τὴν ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις προθυμίαν ἐκλύειν.

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Zosimus, Historia Nova, ed. Ludwig Mendelssohn. 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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