Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses, ed. Larue Van Hook, 26

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[26] τετταράκοντα δʼ ἔτη τῆς στάσεως γενομένης ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν τυράννων τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον τῶν ἄλλων ἐμισήθησαν, ὥσθʼ ὁπότε τἀκείνων κρατήσειεν, οὐ μόνον τὰς οἰκίας αὐτῶν κατέσκαπτον ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς τάφους ἀνώρυττον, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν συμφυγάδων οὕτω σφόδρʼ ἐπιστεύθησαν, ὥσθʼ ἅπαντα τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον ἡγούμενοι τοῦ δήμου διετέλεσαν. καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον Ἀλκιβιάδης καὶ Κλεισθένης, ὁ μὲν πρὸς πατρός, ὁ δὲ πρὸς μητρὸς ὢν πρόπαππος τοῦ πατρὸς τοὐμοῦ, στρατηγήσαντες τῆς φυγῆς κατήγαγον τὸν δῆμον καὶ τοὺς τυράννους ἐξέβαλον,

Concerning the Team of Horses. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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

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Concerning the Team of Horses Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 26 focus

[26] And during the forty years¹ of civic discord the Alcmeonidae were hated so much more bitterly than all other Athenians by the tyrants that whenever the tyrants had the upper hand they not only razed their dwellings, but even dug up their tombs²; and so completely were the Alcmeonidae trusted by their fellow-exiles that they continued during all that time to be leaders of the people. At last, Alcibiades and Cleisthenes³—the former my great-grandfather on my father’s side, the latter my father’s maternal great-grandfather—assuming the leadership of those in exile, restored the people to their country, and drove out the tyrants.

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