Isocrates, Plataicus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 20

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[20] And yet what man would not detest the greedy spirit of these Thebans, who seek to rule the weaker, but think they must be on terms of equality with the stronger and who begrudge your city the territory ceded by the Oropians,¹ yet themselves forcibly seize and portion out territory not their own?

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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Πλαταικός Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 20 focus

[20] καίτοι τίς οὐκ ἂν μισήσειε τὴν τούτων πλεονεξίαν, οἳ τῶν μὲν ἀσθενεστέρων ἄρχειν ζητοῦσι, τοῖς δὲ κρείττοσιν ἴσον ἔχειν οἴονται δεῖν, καὶ τῇ μὲν ὑμετέρᾳ πόλει τῆς γῆς τῆς ὑπʼ Ὠρωπίων δεδομένης φθονοῦσιν, αὐτοὶ δὲ βία τὴν ἀλλοτρίαν χώραν κατανέμονται;

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Plataicus

1. Oropus, a town on the frontier between Attica and Boeotia , was long a bone of contention. In 412 B.C. it was treacherously taken by Thebes (Thucydides viii. 60); at some time after 402 B.C. it was under Athenian protection; in 366 B.C. Oropus was again seized by Thebes , but in 338 B.C. Philip gave the town to Athens.

Isocrates Plataicus 20

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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