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Zosimus (historian)

Ok, so imagine you are going back in time to a very long time ago, like really long ago when people didn't have phones or computers or electricity. People used to write things down in books, which were like big piles of paper with words on them.

One of the people who wrote things down in books was a man named Zosimus. He wasn't just any man, he was a historian. A historian is someone who studies history and writes down what happened in the past.

Zosimus lived a long time ago, even longer ago than your great-great-grandparents. He lived in a place called Egypt, which is far away from where we live today. He wrote a lot of books about the history of his time, which was almost 2000 years ago!

His books talk about things like wars, rulers, and important events that happened in his time. He was very good at telling stories and making his books interesting, so people could learn about the past and enjoy reading them too.

Today, Zosimus's books are still very important because they help us understand what life was like a long time ago. Historians and scholars still read and study them to learn about history.

So, in short, Zosimus was a man who lived a long time ago and wrote books about history that are still valuable to us today.
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