Isocrates, Busiris, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 1

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[1] I have learned of your fairmindedness, Polycrates, and of the reversal in your life, through information from others; and having myself read certain of the discourses which you have written, I should have been greatly pleased to discuss frankly with you and fully the education with which you have been obliged to occupy yourself. For I believe that when men through no fault of their own are unfortunate and so seek in philosophy a source of gain,¹ it is the duty of all who have had a wider experience in that occupation, and have become more thoroughly versed in it, to make this contribution² voluntarily for their benefit.

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

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[1] τὴν μὲν ἐπιείκειαν τὴν σήν, ὦ Πολύκρατες, καὶ τὴν τοῦ βίου μεταβολὴν παρʼ ἄλλων πυνθανόμενος οἶδα· τῶν δὲ λόγων τινὰς ὧν γέγραφας, αὐτὸς ἀνεγνωκὼς ἥδιστα μὲν ἄν σοι περὶ ὅλης ἐπαρρησιασάμην τῆς παιδεύσεως περὶ ἣν ἠνάγκασαι διατρίβειν· ἡγοῦμαι γὰρ τοῖς ἀναξίως μὲν δυστυχοῦσιν, ἐκ δὲ φιλοσοφίας χρηματίζεσθαι ζητοῦσιν, ἅπαντας τοὺς πλείω πεπραγματευμένους καὶ μᾶλλον ἀπηκριβωμένους προσήκειν ἐθελοντὰς τοῦτον εἰσφέρειν τὸν ἔρανον·

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Busiris

1. That is, from the teaching of the subject.

2. For the figure of speech in ἔρανος see Isoc. 10.20 and Plat. Sym.177c .

Isocrates Busiris 1

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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