# Historia Nova 2.21.2

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 2, Chapter 21. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/2.21.2

τὸ δὲ ἀνωτέρω ξύλινον ἦν. οἰηθέντες τοίνυν οἱ Σαυρομάται ῥᾷστα τὴν πόλιν αἱρήσειν, εἰ τοῦ τείχους ὅσον ξύλινον ἦν καταφλέξαιεν, πῦρ τε προσῆγον καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους ἐτόξευον. ἐπεὶ δὲ οἱ ἐφεστῶτες τοῖς τείχεσι βέλεσί τε καὶ λίθοις τοὺς βαρβάρους ἐξ ὑπερδεξίων βάλλοντες ἔκτεινον, ἀπαντήσας Κωσταντῖνος καὶ κατὰ νώτου τοῖς βαρβάροις ἐπιπεσὼν πολλοὺς μὲν ἀπέκτεινεν τοὺς δὲ πλείους ἐζώγρησεν,

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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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