AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Classical Authors, Z.

Zosimus.

Zosimus is the last of the pagan historians, and has little good to say about the Christian emperors.

The New History of Count Zosimus, sometime Advocate of the Treasury of the Roman Empire. With the notes of the Oxford edition. To which is prefixed Leunclavius’s Apology for the author. Newly Englished. London: Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, Bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Ball in Cornhill, 1684.
Another copy.

The History of Count Zosimus, sometime Advocate and Chancellor of the Roman Empire. Translated from the original Greek, with the notes of the Oxford edition. London: J. Davis, 1814.

This version is transcribed in Roger Pearse’s “Additional Fathers” collection:

Preface to the Online Edition.

Preface.

Book I.

Book II.

Book III.

Book IV.

Book V.

Book VI.

Note that Pearse is mistaken—or, rather, was mistaken twenty years ago when he published this transcription—in his guess that the 1814 edition was a careless reprint of the 1684 edition. They are different translations.