# Historia Nova 2.17.1

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 2, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/2.17.1

ἀγγελθείσης δὲ τοῖς ἐν τῇ πόλει τῆς νίκης, χαίρειν μὲν οὐδεὶς ἐπὶ τοῖς πεπραγμένοις ἐθάρρει διὰ τὸ τὴν ἀγγελίαν οἴεσθαί τινας εἶναι ψευδῆ: τῆς δὲ Μαξεντίου κεφαλῆς ἐπὶ δόρατος ἀνενεχθείσης, ἀποθέμενοι τὸν φόβον εἰς ἡδονὴν τὴν ἀθυμίαν μετήγαγον.

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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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