# Historia Nova 1.69.4

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 1, Chapter 69. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/1.69.4

ἀλλ̓ οὐδὲ οὕτως ἀπεῖπεν ὁ Λύδιος, ἀλλ̓ οἴνου μὲν κατὰ βραχὺ τοὺς αὐτῷ συνόντας ἀπέστησεν καὶ σῖτον ἐμέτρει τοῦ συνήθους ἐλάττονα, τῶν δὲ σιτίων καὶ οὕτως ἐπιλιπόντων εἰς ἀνάγκην κατέστη τοῦ πάντας ἀπολέσαι ἐν τῇ πόλει πλὴν ὀλίγων ἀνδρῶν αὐτῷ τε ἐπιτηδείων καὶ πρὸς φυλακὴν ἀρκεῖν δοκούντων. κατέσχεν δὲ καὶ γυναῖκας, ἃς ἐπὶ τῇ τῆς φύσεως ἀναγκαίᾳ χρείᾳ κοινὰς εἶναι πεποίηκεν ἅπασιν.

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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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