Isocrates, Helen, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 64

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[64] And she displayed her own power to the poet Stesichorus¹ also; for when, at the beginning of his ode, he spoke in disparagement of her, he arose deprived of his sight; but when he recognized the cause of his misfortune and composed the Recantation,² as it is called, she restored to him his normal sight.

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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Ἑλένη Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 64 focus

[64] ἐνεδείξατο δὲ καὶ Στησιχόρῳ τῷ ποιητῇ τὴν αὑτῆς δύναμιν· ὅτε μὲν γὰρ ἀρχόμενος τῆς ᾠδῆς ἐβλασφήμησέ τι περὶ αὐτῆς, ἀνέστη τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐστερημένος, ἐπειδὴ δὲ γνοὺς τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς συμφορᾶς τὴν καλουμένην παλινῳδίαν ἐποίησε, πάλιν αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν φύσιν κατέστησεν.

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Helen

1. The famous lyric poet of Himera, in Sicily .

2. The well-known Palinode; for this legend and the fragment of the poem see Plat. Phaedrus 242a .

Isocrates Helen 64

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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