Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 7

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[7] The city was greatly excited by reason of the gravity of the charges, and a meeting of the Assembly was hastily called at which my father so clearly proved that the accusers were lying that the people would have been glad to punish them, and furthermore elected him general for the Sicilian expedition.¹ Thereupon he sailed away, judging that he had been already cleared of their calumnies; but his accusers, having united the Council and having made the public speakers subservient to themselves, again revived the matter and suborned informers.

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).) — 7 focus

[7] ὀρθῆς δὲ τῆς πόλεως γενομένης διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τῶν αἰτιῶν καὶ διὰ ταχέων συλλεγείσης ἐκκλησίας οὕτω σαφῶς ἐπέδειξεν αὐτοὺς ψευδομένους, ὥστε παρὰ μὲν τῶν κατηγόρων ἡδέως ἂν ὁ δῆμος δίκην ἔλαβε, τὸν δʼ εἰς Σικελίαν στρατηγὸν ἐχειροτόνησεν. μετὰ δὲ ταῦθʼ ὁ μὲν ἐξέπλευσεν ὡς ἀπηλλαγμένος ἤδη τῆς διαβολῆς, οἱ δὲ συστήσαντες τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τοὺς ῥήτορας ὑφʼ αὑτοῖς ποιησάμενοι πάλιν ἤγειρον τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ μηνυτὰς εἰσέπεμπον.

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Concerning the Team of Horses

1. The ill-fated Sicilian Expedition, 415-413 B.C.

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Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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