# Historia Nova 4.20.4

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 4, Chapter 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/4.20.4

παρελθόντες δὲ ὅμως τοῖς ἵπποις καὶ γυναιξὶ καὶ παισὶ καὶ οἷς ἐπεφέροντο, τοῖς ὑπὲρ τὸν Ἴστρον κατῳκημένοις ἐπῄεσαν Σκύθαις, μάχην μὲν σταδίαν οὔτε δυνάμενοι τὸ παράπαν οὔτε εἰδότες ἐπαγαγεῖν ʽπῶς γὰρ οἱ μήτε εἰς γῆν πῆξαι τοὺς πόδας οἷοί τε ὄντες ἑδραίως, ἀλλ̓ ἐπὶ τῶν ἵππων καὶ διαιτώμενοι καὶ καθεύδοντεσ̓, περιελάσεσι δὲ καὶ ἐκδρομαῖς καὶ εὐκαίροις ἀναχωρήσεσιν, ἐκ τῶν ἵππων κατατοξεύοντες,

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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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