# Historia Nova 4.39.5

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 4, Chapter 39. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/4.39.5

ὃ δὲ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων τὸ πλῆθος καὶ τὸν ὄγκον τῶν λαφύρων τεθεαμένος ἀνῆκέ τε τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους ἀδέτους καὶ δωρεαῖς ἐφιλοφρονεῖτο, διὰ τῆς τοιαύτης φιλανθρωπίας εἰς τὸ αὐτομολῆσαι προτρέπων, καὶ ἄλλως εἰς τὸν κατὰ Μαξίμου συνοίσοντάς οἱ πόλεμον. ὁ μὲν οὖν Πρόμωτος ἐπέμενε τῇ τῆς Θρᾴκης ἐφεστὼς φυλακῇ καὶ πρὸς τὸν εἰρημένον πόλεμον ἐν παραβύστῳ γινόμενος εὐτρεπής: ἕτερον δέ τι παραπλήσιον ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ συμβὰν ἄξιον ἀφηγήσασθαι.

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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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