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Sozomen

Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus — a Palestinian-born lawyer at Constantinople whose Ecclesiastical History parallels Socrates with richer monastic and Western detail. Together they are the two principal continuations of Eusebius.

c. 400–c. 450

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PalestineConstantinople

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Readings and commentaries

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Ecclesiastical History

Nine books covering 323 to 425 — Sozomen's parallel history to that of Socrates, richer in monastic and Western detail and often preserving sources Socrates omits.