# Historia Nova 3.1.3

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 3, Chapter 1. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/3.1.3

ʽν̔έος ἐστἲ φησί ʽκαὶ τὸ ἦθος ἁπλοῦς καὶ λόγων ἀσκήσει τὸν ἅπαντα βίον ἐσχολακὼς καὶ πραγμάτων παντάπασιν ἄπειρος, ἀμείνων τε ἔσται παντὸς ἑτέρου περὶ ἡμᾶς: ἢ γὰρ τύχῃ δεξιᾷ περὶ τὰ πράγματα χρώμενος ἐπιγράφεσθαι τὸν βασιλέα ποιήσει τὰ αἰσίως ἐκβάντα, ἢ κατά τι πταίσας τεθνήξεται, καὶ οὐδένα ἕξει τοῦ λοιποῦ Κωνστάντιος ὡς ἐκ γένους βασιλικοῦ πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὅλων ἀρχὴν κληθησόμενον.ʼ

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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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