Editing Zosimus (historian) (section)

== Reception ==
Zosimus’ work contains multiple errors, some of them not found in any other extant source, such as wrongly reporting that all three of Constantine’s successors were not the sons of his wife [[Fausta]].<ref>Hans Pohlsander, [http://www.roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/fausta.htm#10 Fausta (293-326 A.D.)]</ref>  [[Edward Gibbon]] judged him as “unworthy of esteem and trust,” “poor in judgment,” and “a disingenuous liar.”{{sfn|Goffart|1971|p=413}} Ludwig Mendelssohn observed that, “The more familiar one becomes with Zosimus, the more one learns to distrust him.”{{sfn|Goffart|1971|p=413}}