Isocrates, Evagoras, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 15

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[15] Having gained their desire, they were saved and built in Aegina a temple¹ to be shared by all the Greeks on the very spot where he had offered his prayer. During his entire stay among men he ever enjoyed the fairest repute, and after his departure from life it is said that he sits by the side of Pluto and Kore² in the enjoyment of the highest honors.³

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

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

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Εὐαγόρας Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 15 focus

[15] σωθέντες δὲ καὶ τυχόντες ὧν ἐδεήθησαν, ἱερὸν ἐν Αἰγίνῃ κατεστήσαντο κοινὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, οὗπερ ἐκεῖνος ἐποιήσατο τὴν εὐχήν. καὶ κατʼ ἐκεῖνόν τε τὸν χρόνον ἕως ἦν μετʼ ἀνθρώπων, μετὰ καλλίστης ὢν δόξης διετέλεσεν· ἐπειδή τε μετήλλαξε τὸν βίον, λέγεται παρὰ Πλούτωνι καὶ Κόρῃ μεγίστας τιμὰς ἔχων παρεδρεύειν ἐκείνοις.

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Evagoras

1. This was the Aiakeion, described by Pausanias ii. 29.

2. Persephone.

3. Aeacus, Minos, and Rhadamanthys were reputed to be the judges in the world of the dead.

Isocrates Evagoras 15

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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