{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4084.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4084.tlg001.local001","title":"Historia Nova","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Zosimus","authorityName":"ZOSIMUS Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4084-zosimus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4084-zosimus/","editors":["Ludwig Mendelssohn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Zosimi Historia Nova","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1887","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qN8TAAAAQAAJ","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Zosimus. Historia Nova. ed. Ludwig Mendelssohn. Zosimi Historia Nova, Leipzig, Teubner, 1887. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4084.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Πολυβίῳ τῷ Μεγαλοπολίτῃ, μνήμῃ παραδοῦναι τὰ καθ̓ ἑαυτὸν ἀξιόλογα τῶν ἔργων προελομένῳ, καλῶς ἔχειν ἐφάνη δἰ αὐτῶν ἐπιδεῖξαι τῶν πράξεων ὅπως οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι μετὰ τὸν τῆς πόλεως οἰκισμὸν ἑξακοσίοις ἔτεσι τοῖς περιοίκοις προσπολεμήσαντες μεγάλην ἀρχὴν οὐκ ἐκτήσαντο, μέρος δέ τι τῆς Ἰταλίας ὑφ̓ ἑαυτοὺς ποιησάμενοι, καὶ τούτου μετὰ τὴν Ἀννίβα διάβασιν καὶ τὴν ἐν Κάνναις ἧτταν ἐκπεπτωκότες, αὐτοῖς δὲ τοῖς τείχεσι τοὺς πολεμίους ὁρῶντες ἐπικειμένους, εἰς τοσοῦτον μέγεθος ἤρθησαν τύχης ὥστε ἐν οὐδὲ ὅλοις τρισὶ καὶ πεντήκοντα ἔτεσιν μὴ μόνον Ἰταλίαν ἀλλὰ καὶ Λιβύην κατακτήσασθαι πᾶσαν, ἤδη δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἑσπερίους Ἴβηρας ὑφ̓ ἑαυτοὺς καταστῆσαι, ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦ πλείονος ἐφιέμενοι τὸν Ἰόνιον ἐπεραιώθησαν κόλπον, Ἑλλήνων τε ἐκράτησαν καὶ Μακεδόνας παρέλυσαν τῆς ἀρχῆς, αὐτόν τε ὃς τηνικαῦτα τούτων ἐβασίλευε ζωγρίαν ἑλόντες εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην ἀνήγαγον. ἀλλὰ τούτων μὲν οὐκ ἄν τις ἀνθρωπίνην ἰσχὺν αἰτιάσαιτο, Μοιρῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/#tlg4084-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/#tlg4084-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/#tlg4084-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/#tlg4084-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/#tlg4084-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/#tlg4084-tlg001-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4084.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4084/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}