Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 42

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[42] or on your behalf, or in partnership with you, being as a citizen quite unlike Charicles,¹ my opponent’s brother-in-law, who chose to be a slave to the enemy, yet claimed the right to rule his fellow-citizens; who, when in exile, was inactive, but on his return was ever injuring the city. And yet how could one prove himself to be a baser friend or a viler enemy?

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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[42] τὰ δʼ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, τὰ δὲ μεθʼ ὑμῶν, ἀνόμοιος πολίτης Χαρικλεῖ τῷ τούτου κηδεστῇ γεγενημένος, ὃς τοῖς μὲν πολεμίοις δουλεύειν ἐπεθύμει, τῶν δὲ πολιτῶν ἄρχειν ἠξίου, καὶ φεύγων μὲν ἡσυχίαν εἶχε, κατελθὼν δὲ κακῶς ἐποίει τὴν πόλιν. καίτοι πῶς ἂν γένοιτʼ ἢ φίλος πονηρότερος ἢ ἐχθρὸς ἐλάττονος ἄξιος;

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Concerning the Team of Horses

1. Charicles was one of the most cruel of the Thirty Tyrants. Cf. Lys. 12.55 ; Xen. Hell. 2.3.2 .

Isocrates Concerning the Team of Horses 42

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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