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Greek See also:historical writer, flourished at See also:Constantinople during the second See also:half of the 5th See also:century A.D. According to See also:Photius, he was a See also:count, and held the See also:office of " See also:advocate " of the imperial See also:treasury. His New See also:History, mainly a compilation from previous authors (See also:Dexippus, See also:Eunapius, See also:Olympiodorus), is in six books: the first sketches briefly the history of the See also:early emperors from See also:Augustus to See also:Diocletian (305) ; the second, third and See also:fourth See also:deal more fully with the See also:period from the See also:accession of See also:Constantius and See also:Galerius to the See also:death of See also:Theodosius; the fifth and See also:sixth See also:cover the period between 395 and 410. The See also:work, which is apparently unfinished, must have been written between 450-502. The See also:style is characterized by Photius as concise, clear and pure. The historian's See also:object was to See also:account for the decline of the See also:Roman See also:empire from the See also:pagan point of view, and in this undertaking he at various points treated the Christians with some unfairness. The best edition is by Mendelssohn (1887), who fully discusses the question of the authorities used by Zosimus; there is an excellent appreciation of him in See also:Ranke's Weltgeschichte, iv. See also:French See also:translation by See also:Cousin (1678) ; See also:English (See also:anonymous), 1684, 1814.

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