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  • Speech 1: To Demonicus
  • Speech 2: To Nicocles
  • Speech 3: Nicocles or the Cyprians
  • Speech 4: Panegyricus
  • Speech 5: To Philip
  • Speech 6: Archidamus
  • Speech 7: Areopagiticus
  • Speech 8: On the Peace
  • Speech 9: Evagoras
  • Speech 10: Helen
  • Speech 11: Busiris
  • Speech 12: Panathenaicus
  • Speech 13: Against the Sophists
  • Speech 14: Plataicus
  • Speech 15: Antidosis
  • Speech 16: Concerning the Team of Horses
  • Speech 17: Trapeziticus
  • Speech 18: Against Callimachus
  • Speech 19: Aegineticus
  • Speech 20: Against Lochites
  • Speech 21: Against Euthynus
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    Isocrates, Speeches and Letters (ed. George Norlin)

    To Philip

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. George Norlin) | English (ed. George Norlin)
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    [101] Consider, again, the state of affairs in his empire. Who could hear the facts and not be spurred to war against him? Egypt was, it is true, in revolt1 even when Cyrus made his expedition; but her people nevertheless were living in continual fear lest the King might some day lead an army in person and overcome the natural obstacles which, thanks to the Nile, their country presents, and all their military defenses as well. But now this King has delivered them from that dread; for after he had brought together and fitted out the largest force he could possibly raise and marched against them, he retired from Egypt not only defeated, but laughed at and scorned as unfit either to be a king or to command an army. [102] Furthermore, Cyprus and Phoenicia and Cilicia,2 and that region from which the barbarians used to recruit their fleet, belonged at that time to the King, but now they have either revolted from him or are so involved in war and its attendant ills that none of these peoples is of any use to him; while to you, if you desire to make war upon him, they will be serviceable. [103] And mark also that Idrieus,3 who is the most prosperous of the present rulers of the mainland, must in the nature of things be more hostile to the interests of the King than are those who are making open war against him; verily he would be of all men the most perverse if he did not desire the dissolution of that empire which outrages his brother,4 which made war upon himself, and which at all times has never ceased to plot against him in its desire to be master of his person and of all his wealth.

    1 Isoc. 4.140, 161.

    2 Isoc. 4.161.

    3 Isoc. 4.162.

    4 Mausolus.

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    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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