Isocrates, Speeches and Letters (ed. George Norlin)
Panathênaikos
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[119] êdê de peri hês te hupethemên kai tôn progonôn poiêsomai tous logous, ekeinôn tôn chronôn epilabomenos hot' ouk ên out' oligarchias oute dêmokratias onoma pô legomenon, alla monarchiai kai ta genê ta tôn barbarôn kai tas poleis tas Hellênidas hapasas diôikoun. [120] dia touto de proeilomên porrôterôthen poiêsasthai tên archên, prôton men hêgoumenos prosêkein tois amphisbêtousin aretês euthus apo geneas diapherontas einai tôn allôn, epeit' aischunomenos ei peri andrôn agathôn men ouden de moi prosêkontôn pleiô dialechtheis tôn metriôn peri tôn progonôn tôn tên polin kallista dioikêsantôn mêde mikran poiêsomai mneian, [121] hoi tosouton beltious egenonto tôn toiautas dunasteias echontôn, hoson per andres hoi phronimôtatoi kai praotatoi dienenkoien an thêriôn tôn agriôtatôn kai pleistês ômotêtos mestôn. ti gar ouk an heuroimen tôn huperballontôn anosiotêti kai deinotêti pepragmenon en tais allais polesi, kai malist' en tais megistais kai tote nomizomenais kai nun einai dokousais; ou phonous adelphôn kai paterôn kai xenôn pamplêtheis gegenêmenous;
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This text is based on the following book(s): Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980. OCLC: 17454675 ISBN: 0674992318, 0674992520, 0674994116
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