Isocrates, Panegyricus, George Norlin (Translator), 36

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[36] for to the latter they left the home country—sufficient for their needs—and for the former they provided more land than they had owned since they embraced in their conquests all the territory which we Hellenes now possess.¹ And so they smoothed the way for those also who in a later time resolved to send out colonists and imitate our city; for these did not have to undergo the perils of war in acquiring territory, but could go into the country marked out by us and settle there.

Panegyricus. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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Panegyricus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 1. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 (printing).)

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[36] τοῖς μὲν γὰρ ἱκανὴν τὴν οἴκοι χώραν κατέλιπον, τοῖς δὲ πλείω τῆς ὑπαρχούσης ἐπόρισαν· ἅπαντα γὰρ περιεβάλοντο τὸν τόπον, ὃν νῦν τυγχάνομεν κατέχοντες. ὥστε καὶ τοῖς ὕστερον βουληθεῖσιν ἀποικίσαι τινὰς καὶ μιμήσασθαι τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἡμετέραν πολλὴν ῥᾳστώνην ἐποίησαν· οὐ γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἔδει κτωμένους χώραν διακινδυνεύειν, ἀλλʼ εἰς τὴν ὑφʼ ἡμῶν ἀφορισθεῖσαν,

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Panegyricus

1. For the traditional “Ionic migration,” led by Athens , in the course of which settlements were made in Samos and Chios and in the islands of the Cyclades , in Asia Minor , and on the shores of the Black Sea , see Isoc. 12.43-44 , 166, 190; Thuc. 1.2.6 ; Grote, History of Greece (new edition), ii. pp. 21 ff.

Isocrates Panegyricus 36

George Norlin (Translator)

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