Isocrates, Evagoras, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 40

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[40] Now if he had distinguished himself in unimportant ways only, he would fittingly be thought worthy also of praise of like nature: but as it is, all would admit that of all blessings whether human or divine supreme power is the greatest, the most august, and the object of greatest strife. That man, therefore, who has most gloriously acquired the most glorious of possessions, what poet or what artificer of words¹ could raise in a manner worthy of his deeds?

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).) — 40 focus

[40] εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ μικροῖς διήνεγκε, τοιούτων ἂν καὶ τῶν λόγων αὐτῷ προσῆκεν ἀξιοῦσθαι· νῦν δʼ ἅπαντες ἂν ὁμολογήσειαν τυραννίδα καὶ τῶν θείων ἀγαθῶν καὶ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων μέγιστον καὶ σεμνότατον καὶ περιμαχητότατον εἶναι. τὸν δὴ τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν ὄντων κάλλιστα κτησάμενον τίς ἂν ἢ ποιητὴς ἢ λόγων εὑρετὴς ἀξίως τῶν πεπραγμένων ἐπαινέσειεν;

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Evagoras

1. λόγων εὑρετής is found also in Isoc. 5.144 . It means “prose-writer,” and refers especially to composers of “set discourses” or “show-pieces.”

Isocrates Evagoras 40

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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