# Historia Nova 4.51.2

Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 4, Chapter 51. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/zosimus/historia-nova/4.51.2

ὃ δὲ οὐκ ἐνεγκὼν ἐπήγαγε τῷ προσώπῳ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ ἔπληξεν. ὃ δὲ εἰσελθὼν καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸ πρόσωπον δείξας τοσοῦτον ἐξανέστησεν εἰς ὀργὴν ὥστε εἰπεῖν, εἰ μὴ τὸν κατὰ Ῥουφίνου φθόνον ἀπόθοιντο, ταχέως αὐτὸν ὄψονται βασιλεύοντα. ταῦτα ὁ Ῥουφῖνος ἀκηκοώς, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἄλλως ἦν ἅπασιν ἔγκοτος διὰ φιλοπρωτείας ὑπερβολήν, ἀναπείθει τὸν βασιλέα κελεῦσαι τῶν βασιλείων ἔξω που διατρίβειν Προμώτῳ καὶ τῇ περὶ τὰ πολέμια μελέτῃ τοὺς στρατιώτας ἀσκεῖν.

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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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