Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 10

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[10] These are the actual facts; but such an excess of insolence have my father’s enemies that they accuse him, who was exiled in so illegal a manner as if he had committed outrageous crimes, and try to ruin his reputation by saying that he caused the fortification of Decelea,¹ and the revolt of the islands, and that he became the enemy’s counsellor.

Concerning the Team of Horses. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Concerning the Team of Horses (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Περὶ τοῦ ζεύγους Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 10 focus

[10] καὶ τὰ μὲν γενόμενα ταῦτʼ ἐστίν· τοσοῦτον δὲ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς τῆς ὕβρεως περίεστιν, ὥσθʼ οὕτως ἀνόμως τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπεσόντος ὡς δεινὰ δεδρακότος αὐτοῦ κατηγοροῦσι, καὶ διαβάλλειν ἐπιχειροῦσιν ὡς Δεκέλειάν τʼ ἐπετείχισε καὶ τὰς νήσους ἀπέστησε καὶ τῶν πολεμίων διδάσκαλος κατέστη.

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Concerning the Team of Horses

1. Decelea was a fort on Mt. Parnes, fourteen miles N.E. from Athens. The Lacedaemonians occupied it in 413 B.C. Cf. Lys. 14.30 , and for the facts Thuc. 6.91.6 .

Isocrates Concerning the Team of Horses 10

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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