Isocrates, Plataicus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 13

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[13] Why, who could believe that we had reached such a degree of folly as to have valued more highly a people who reduced our fatherland to slavery than the people who had given us a share in their own city?¹ No indeed, but it was difficult for us to attempt a revolt when we had so small a city ourselves and the Lacedaemonians possessed power so great, and when besides a Spartan governor occupied it with a garrison, and also a large army was stationed at Thespiae ,²

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

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

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[13] τίς γὰρ ἂν πιστεύσειεν εἰς τοῦθʼ ἡμᾶς ἀνοίας ἐλθεῖν ὥστε περὶ πλείονος ποιήσασθαι τοὺς ἐξανδραποδισαμένους ἡμῶν τὴν πατρίδα μᾶλλον ἢ τοὺς τῆς πόλεως τῆς αὑτῶν μεταδόντας; ἀλλὰ γάρ, οἶμαι, χαλεπὸν ἦν νεωτερίζειν αὐτοὺς μὲν μικρὰν πόλιν οἰκοῦντας, ἐκείνων δʼ οὕτω μεγάλην δύναμιν κεκτημένων, ἔτι δὲ πρὸς τούτοις ἁρμοστοῦ καθεστῶτος καὶ φρουρᾶς ἐνούσης καὶ τηλικούτου στρατεύματος ὄντος Θεσπιᾶσιν,

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Plataicus

1. That is, the Athenians; see Introduction.

2. Cf. Xen. Hell. 5.4.13-22 . Cleombrotus, king of Sparta , in the beginning of 378 B.C., occupied Plataea and Thespiae . Sphodrias was the governor or harmost.

Isocrates Plataicus 13

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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