Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 17

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[17] For the one party¹ regarded those who were in possession of the city as greater enemies than the Lacedaemonians² and the other were making overtures to the Spartan forces in Decelea, judging that it was preferable to hand over their country to its enemies rather than to give a share in the rights of citizenship to those who were fighting for the city.

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).) — 17 focus

[17] οἱ μὲν γὰρ τοὺς ἔχοντας τὴν πόλιν ἐχθροὺς ἐνόμιζον μᾶλλον ἢ Λακεδαιμονίους, οἱ δὲ τοὺς ἐκ Δεκελείας μετεπέμποντο, ἡγούμενοι κρεῖττον εἶναι τοῖς πολεμίοις τὴν πατρίδα παραδοῦναι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως στρατευομένοις τῆς πολιτείας μεταδοῦναι.

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Concerning the Team of Horses

1. the Athenian army and fleet, sympathetic the the democracy, were at the island of Samos ( Thuc. 8.82 and Thuc. 8.86 ).

2. The oligarchs in Athens.

Isocrates Concerning the Team of Horses 17

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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