Isocrates, Against Callimachus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 51

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[51] I could wish that you knew him as well as I do, in order that, instead of commiserating with him over his losses, you might bear him a grudge for what he has left. The fact is, though, that if I should try to tell of all the others who have been the objects of his plots, of the private law-suits in which he has been involved, of the public suits which he has entered, of the persons with whom he has conspired or against whom he has borne false witness, not even twice as much water¹ as has been allotted me would prove sufficient.

Against Callimachus. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Against Callimachus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Παραγραφή πρὸς Καλλίμαχον Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 51 focus

[51] ἠβουλόμην δʼ ἂν ὑμᾶς ὁμοίως ἐμοὶ γιγνώσκειν αὐτόν, ἵνʼ αὐτῷ μὴ τῶν ἀπολωλότων συνήχθεσθε ἀλλὰ τῶν ὑπολοίπων ἐφθονεῖτε. νῦν δὲ περὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ὅσοις ἐπιβεβούλευκε, καὶ δὶκας οἵας δεδίκασται καὶ γραφὰς ἃς¹ εἰσελήλυθε, καὶ μεθʼ ὧν συνέστηκε καὶ καθʼ ὧν τὰ ψευδῆ μεμαρτύρηκεν, οὐδʼ ἂν δὶς τοσοῦτον ὕδωρ ἱκανὸν διηγήσασθαι γένοιτο·

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Against Callimachus

1. The time allotted to the litigant for his speech in the Athenian law-courts was regulated by an official water-clock (the klepsydra). One has been found; cf. Hesperia viii., 1939.

Isocrates Against Callimachus 51

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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