# Historia Nova 4.48.6

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 4, Chapter 48. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/4.48.6

τοῦ δὲ οὐδὲν ἀνασχομένου παντάπασιν ἀποκρίνασθαι βάσανοι διὰ μαστίγων ἐπήγοντο. τοῦ δὲ μηδὲ τῇ διὰ τούτων ἐνδόντος ἀνάγκῃ, ξίφεσιν ἀμύττειν αὐτῷ τὸ σῶμα τοῖς ἱππεῦσιν ἐνεκελεύετο, προσθεὶς ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος εἴη. τοῦτο ἀκούσας ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐξέφαινέ τε ὅστις εἴη καὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἕλεσι κρυπτομένων βαρβάρων εἶναι κατάσκοπος ἔλεγεν, ἀπαγγέλλειν τε αὐτοῖς ὁ στρατὸς ὅποι εἴη καὶ ποίοις ἐπιέναι τόποις ἢ ἀνδράσι προσήκει.

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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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