Isocrates, Helen, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 6

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[6] But the truth is that these men care for naught save enriching themselves at the expense of the youth. It is their “philosophy” applied to eristic disputations¹ that effectively produces this result; for these rhetoricians, who care nothing at all for either private or public affairs, take most pleasure in those discourses which are of no practical service in any particular.

Helen. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Helen (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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[6] ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐδενὸς αὐτοῖς ἄλλου μέλει πλὴν τοῦ χρηματίζεσθαι παρὰ τῶν νεωτέρων. ἔστι δʼ ἡ περὶ τὰς ἔριδας φιλοσοφία δυναμένη τοῦτο ποιεῖν· οἱ γὰρ μήτε τῶν ἰδίων πω μήτε τῶν κοινῶν φροντίζοντες τούτοις μάλιστα χαίρουσι τῶν λόγων οἳ μηδὲ πρὸς ἓν χρήσιμοι τυγχάνουσιν ὄντες.

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1. eristics, “wordy wrangling” “mere disputation for its own sake”; cf. General Introd., Vol. I, p. xxi and Isoc. 13.1 .

Isocrates Helen 6

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