# Historia Nova 4.33.3

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 4, Chapter 33. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/4.33.3

αὐτομόλους γὰρ ἔπεμπον ὡς αὐτὸν ἐλαχίστους, εὔνοιαν καὶ συμμαχίαν καὶ πᾶν τὸ προσταττόμενον ὑπισχνουμένους. καὶ ἐπειδὴ ταῦτα λέγουσι πιστεύσας ἐδέχετο καὶ οὐδὲ ἡ πρώτη πεῖρα δέδωκεν αὐτῷ τὸ. λυσιτελοῦν ἰδεῖν, ἐπηκολούθησαν καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἕτεροι, καὶ πάντας προσίετο, καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτομόλοις τὰ πράγματα ἦν διὰ τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως ἠλιθιότητα. ταύτην δὲ ἔτρεφεν ἡ τῆς τρυφῆς ἄσκησις ἐν αὐτῷ.

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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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