Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 40

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[40] Well then, when Athens was prosperous, who of the citizens was more prosperous, more admired, or more envied than my father? And when she suffered ill-fortune, who was deprived of brighter hopes, or of greater wealth, or of fairer repute? Finally, when the Thirty Tyrants established their rule, while the others merely suffered exile from Athens, was he not banished from all Greece? Did not the Lacedaemonians and Lysander¹ exert themselves as much to cause his death as to bring about the downfall of your dominion, in the belief that they could not be sure of the city’s loyalty if they demolished her walls² unless they should also destroy the man who could rebuild them?

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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[40] ἐκείνου τοίνυν εὖ μὲν πραττούσης τῆς πόλεως τίς εὐδαιμονέστερος ἢ θαυμαστότερος ἢ ζηλωτότερος ἦν τῶν πολιτῶν, δυστυχησάσης δὲ τίς ἐλπίδων μειζόνων ἢ χρημάτων πλειόνων ἢ δόξης καλλίονος ἐστερήθη; οὐ τὸ τελευταῖον ἐπειδὴ κατέστησαν οἱ τριάκονθʼ οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι τὴν πόλιν ἔφυγον, ἐκεῖνος δὲ ἐξ ἁπάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἐξέπεσεν; οὐ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ Λύσανδρος ὁμοίως ἔργον ἐποιήσαντʼ ἐκεῖνον ἀποκτεῖναι καὶ τὴν ὑμετέραν καταλῦσαι δύναμιν, οὐδεμίαν ἡγούμενοι πίστιν ἕξειν παρὰ τῆς πόλεως, εἰ τὰ τείχη καταβάλοιεν, εἰ μὴ καὶ τὸν ἀναστῆσαι δυνάμενον ἀπολέσαιεν;

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Concerning the Team of Horses

1. Spartan general, victorious over the Athenians at Aegospotami ( 405 B.C.)

2. The Long Walls, uniting Athens and its harbor Piraeus, were destroyed in 404 B.C. (Xenophon, Hall. ii. 2. 20) and were rebuilt by Conon in 394 B.C.

Isocrates Concerning the Team of Horses 40

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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