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775 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *i, entry *)isokra/teios
   of Isocrates, (16.95)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   Of ATHENS, father of the orator Isocrates [ISOCRATES] according to Photius. (16.39)

3. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter I
   Isocrates also had friendly relations with foreign princes, especially with Evagoras of Cyprus and his son Nicocles, who loaded him with Isocrates (Villa Albani. (16.39)

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2 from Renaissance Materials

1. Thomas Wilson, Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique (ed. G. H. Mair) section Book 3, subsection Egall members.
   Isocrates passeth in this behalfe, who is thought to write altogether in nomber, keeping iust proportion in framing of his sentence. (5.85)

2. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   Thirdly, when I found in the first Patent graunted by Queene Marie to the Moscovie companie, that my lord your father being then lord high Admirall of England, was one of the first favourers and furtherers, with his purse and countenance, of the strange and wonderfull Discoverie of Russia , the chiefe contents of this present Volume, then I remembred the sage saying of sweet Isocrates, That sonnes ought not onely to be inheriters of their fathers substance, but also of their commendable vertues and honours. (1.77)

4 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter E, entry 9656
   . translated out of Greke into Englishe’ (from Isocrates), 1534, a Latin-English dictionary, 1538, ‘The Image of Governance,’ translated from a Greek manuscript of Eucolpius (first published, 1540), and Platonic dialogues and compilations from the fathers. [xvii. (4.17)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter G, entry 11823
   historian and classic; brother of Adam, lord Gillies [q. v.]; educated at Brechin and Glasgow University; LL.D., 1784; F.R.S. and F.S.A.; historiographer royal of Scotland, 1793; published ‘History of Greece,’ 1786, ‘History of the World from Alexander to Augustus,’ 1807, ‘View of the Reign of Frederick II of Prussia,’ 1789, and translations from Aristotle, Lysias, and Isocrates. [xxi. (3.57)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 1897
   physician; educated at King's College, Cambridge; founded Battie scholarship, 1747; Craven scholar, 1725; M.A., 1730; M.D., 1737; F.C.P., 1738, Harveian orator, 1746; president, 1764; Lumleian orator, 1749-54; published editions of Aristotle and Isocrates, and several medical lectures. [iii. (3.57)

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1 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869 page 37
   My activities I cannot reveal better than by describing my desk, upon which lie an Hiad, an Isocrates, and a Cicero, intermingled with a wilderness of manuscripts which often engross my spare hours. (2.98)