# Historia Nova 3.26.5

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 3, Chapter 26. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/3.26.5

τῶν δὲ ἡγουμένων τοῦ στρατοῦ κατασκόπων εἰς χεῖρας ἐλθόντων μοίρᾳ τινὶ Περσικῇ, Μακαμαῖός τις γυμνὸς ὑπὸ προθυμίας ἐπιπεσὼν τέσσαρας μὲν ἀναιρεῖ, συστραφέντων δ̓ ἅμα πολλῶν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν κατασφάττεται. Μαῦρος δὲ ἀδελφὸς ὢν αὐτοῦ, τὸ σῶμα ἰδὼν ἐν μέσοις κείμενον Πέρσαις, ἁρπάζει τε αὐτὸ καὶ τὸν πρῶτον παίσαντα κτείνει. καὶ οὐκ ἀπεῖπε βαλλόμενος, ἄχρις ὅτε τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἔμπνουν ἔτι τῷ Ῥωμαίων στρατῷ παρέδωκεν.

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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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