Isocrates, Against Callimachus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 61

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[61] And finally, when Lysander¹ proclaimed that if anyone should import grain to you he would be punished with death, we were so zealous for the city’s welfare that, although no one else dared to bring in even his own, we intercepted the grain that was being brought in to them and discharged it at the Piraeus. In recognition of these services you voted that we should be honored with crowns, and that in front of the statues of the eponymous heroes² we should be proclaimed as the authors of great blessings.

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).) — 61 focus

[61] τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον πρὸ εἰπόντος Λυσάνδρου, εἴ τις εἰσάγοι σῖτον ὡς ὑμᾶς, θάνατον τὴν ζημίαν, οὕτω φιλοτίμως εἴχομεν πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, ὥστε τῶν ἄλλων οὐδὲ τὸν σφέτερον αὐτῶν εἰσάγειν τολμώντων ἡμεῖς τὸν ὡς ἐκείνους εἰσπλέοντα λαμβάνοντες εἰς τὸν Πειραιᾶ κατήγομεν. ἀνθʼ ὧν ὑμεῖς ἐψηφίσασθʼ ἡμᾶς στεφανῶσαι καὶ πρόσθε τῶν ἐπωνύμων ἀνειπεῖν ὡς μεγάλων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίους ὄντας.

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Against Callimachus

1. The general of the victorious Spartan army of occupation.

2. These were statues of those heroes who gave their names to the ten Attic tribes. The probable site of these statues is near the north-center of the Agora, near the statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton and in the neighborhood of the temple of Ares.

Isocrates Against Callimachus 61

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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