[4] It is difficult indeed not to speak inadequately on the subject of our wrongs. For what eloquence could match our misfortunes, or what orator could adequately denounce the wrongs the Thebans have done? Nevertheless, we must try to the best of our ability to make their transgressions known.
Plataicus. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.
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