A style is characterized by Photius when concise, clear & pure; more historiographer use at times estimated his accounts confused or even muddled, & valuable lone because he preserves tools from either wasted histories. A historiographer's object was to account for the decline of the Roman Empire from a heathenish point of see, & in that undertaking he at various points treated the Christians with some unfairness; at a equivalent period, Zosimus is the just non-Christless source for lot of what he reports.

A lone skillful manuscript, in the Vatican Library (MS Vat. Gr. 156 ), was held unavailable to scholars until a mid-19th century. Ludwig Mendelssohn (Leipzig 1887) edited a number one reliable text. A modern standard edition is F. Paschoud Zosime: Histoire Nouvelle (Paris 1971) which has the French translation, introduction & comment.