# Historia Nova 4.23.2

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 4, Chapter 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/4.23.2

ὃ δὲ πρὸς τὸ ἐκδεδιῃτημένον καὶ παντάπασιν ἐκμελὲς τῶν ταξιάρχων καὶ στρατιωτῶν ἀφορῶν, καὶ ὡς εἰς φυγὴν μόνον εἰσὶ γεγυμνασμένοι καὶ γυναικώδεις καὶ ἀθλίας εὐχάς, δισχιλίους ᾔτησεν, οὓς ἂν ἕλοιτο, δοθῆναι στρατιώτας αὐτῷ: πλήθους γὰρ ἡγεῖσθαι χαύνως ἠγμένων ἀνθρώπων μὴ ῥᾴδιον εἶναι, παιδαγωγῆσαι δὲ ὀλίγους καὶ εἰς τὸ ἀρρενωπὸν ἐκ τοῦ θήλεος ἀναγαγεῖν οὐ σφόδρα δύσκολον εἶναι, καὶ ἄλλως δὲ λυσιτελὲς μᾶλλον ἐν ὀλίγοις ἢ παντὶ κινδυνεύειν τῷ πλήθει.

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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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