# Historia Nova 1.50.3

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 1, Chapter 50. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/1.50.3

ὁρῶν δὲ τοὺς Παλμυρηνῶν ἱππέας ὁπλίσει βαρείᾳ καὶ ἀσφαλεῖ τεθαρρηκότας καὶ ἅμα πείρᾳ τῇ περὶ τὴν ἱππασίαν πολὺ τῶν σφετέρων προέχοντας, τοὺς μὲν πεζοὺς πέραν που τοῦ Ὀρόντου ποταμοῦ διεχώρισεν, σύνθημα δὲ τοῖς Ῥωμαίων ἱππεῦσι δέδωκεν μὴ ἐκ τοῦ εὐθέος ἀκμῆτι τῇ Παλμυρηνῶν ἵππῳ συνάψαι, δεξαμένοις δὲ τὴν αὐτῶν ἔφοδον ἐς φυγὴν δοκεῖν τρέπεσθαι, καὶ τοῦτο ποιεῖν ἄχρις ἂν ἴδωσιν αὐτούς τε καὶ τοὺς ἵππους ὑπὸ τοῦ καύματος ἅμα καὶ τῆς τῶν ὅπλων βαρύτητος πρὸς τὴν δίωξιν ἀπειπόντας.

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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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