Isocrates, Busiris, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 39

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[39] For these blasphemies the poets, it is true, did not pay the penalty they deserved, but assuredly they did not escape punishment altogether; some became vagabonds begging for their daily bread; others became blind; another spent all his life in exile from his fatherland and in warring with his kinsmen; and Orpheus, who made a point of rehearsing these tales, died by being torn asunder¹

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

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

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[39] ὑπὲρ ὧν τὴν μὲν ἀξίαν δίκην οὐκ ἔδοσαν, οὐ μὴν ἀτιμώρητοί γε διέφυγον, ἀλλʼ οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν ἀλῆται καὶ τῶν καθʼ ἡμέραν ἐνδεεῖς κατέστησαν, οἱ δʼ ἐτυφλώθησαν, ἄλλος δὲ φεύγων τὴν πατρίδα καὶ τοῖς οἰκειοτάτοις πολεμῶν ἅπαντα τὸν χρόνον διετέλεσεν, Ὀρφεὺς δʼ ὁ μάλιστα τούτων τῶν λόγων ἁψάμενος, διασπασθεὶς τὸν βίον ἐτελεύτησεν· ὥστʼ ἢν σωφρονῶμεν,

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1. For example, Homer was represented as a blind wanderer; Stesichorus was smitten with blindness for abuse of Helen in his verses; and Orpheus was torn to pieces by the women of Thrace . Perhaps Archilochus is the poet in exile.

Isocrates Busiris 39

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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