Isocrates, Plataicus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 53

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

[53] For when the Argives came to your ancestors and implored them to take up for burial the bodies of the dead at the foot of the Cadmea,¹ your forefathers yielded to their persuasion and compelled the Thebans to adopt measures more conformable to our usage, and thus not only gained renown for themselves in those times, but also bequeathed to your city a glory never to be forgotten for all time to come, and this glory it would be unworthy of you to betray. For it is disgraceful that you should pride yourselves on the glorious deeds of your ancestors and then be found acting concerning your suppliants in a manner the very opposite of theirs.

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Perseus

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

Editions (1)

Πλαταικός Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 53 focus

[53] ἐλθόντων γὰρ Ἀργείων ὡς τοὺς προγόνους ὑμῶν καὶ δεηθέντων ἀνελέσθαι τοὺς ὑπὸ τῇ Καδμείᾳ τελευτήσαντας, πεισθέντες ὑπʼ ἐκείνων καὶ Θηβαίους ἀναγκάσαντες βουλεύσασθαι νομιμώτερον οὐ μόνον αὐτοὶ κατʼ ἐκείνους τοὺς καιροὺς εὐδοκίμησαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ πόλει δόξαν ἀείμνηστον εἰς ἅπαντα τὸν χρόνον κατέλιπον, ἧς οὐκ ἄξιον προδότας γενέσθαι. καὶ γὰρ αἰσχρὸν φιλοτιμεῖσθαι μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς τῶν προγόνων ἔργοις, φαίνεσθαι δʼ ἐκείνοις τἀναντία περὶ τῶν ἱκετῶν πράττοντας.

Notes on the current edition

Plataicus

1. See Isoc. 4.55 (Vol. I, p. 153).

Isocrates Plataicus 53

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition Perseus

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers