# Historia Nova 3.7.7

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 3, Chapter 7. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/3.7.7

ἐπεὶ δὲ ἱκετηρίας αὐτοὺς ἐλεεινῶς προτεινομένους ὁμήρους ἀπῄτει τῶν ἐπισήμων τινὰς καὶ τούτοις ἅμα τὸν τοῦ βασιλέως υἱόν, εἰς θρῆνον οἰκτρότατον καταστὰς ὁ τῶν βαρβάρων ἡγούμενος ὤμνυε δακρύων ὡς ἀπόλοιτο μ̣̔?ʼτὰ τῶν ἄλλων αὑτῷ καὶ ὁ υἱός. τότε τοίνυν ἐλεήσας ὁ Καῖσαρ δάκρυα πατρὸς τόν τε παῖδα αὐτῷ δείκνυσιν ἐν εὐπαθείᾳ τρεφόμενον, καὶ φήσας ἔχειν ἐν ὁμήρου τάξει, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ τῶν εὖ γεγονότων ἄλλους ὁμήρους λαβών, ἐφιλοτιμήσατο τὴν εἰρήνην ἐφ̓ ᾧ μηδέποτε κατὰ Ῥωμαίων χεῖρας ἆραι.

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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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