Isocrates, Evagoras, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 64

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[64] And although the king within three years¹ destroyed the dominion of the Lacedaemonians,² who were then at the height of their glory and power, yet after he had waged war against Evagoras for ten years,³ he left him lord of all that he had possessed before he entered upon the war. But the most amazing thing of all is this: the city which, held by another prince, Evagoras had captured with fifty men, the Great King, with all his vast power, was unable to subdue at all.

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).) — 64 focus

[64] καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων μὲν τῶν καὶ δόξαν καὶ δύναμιν μεγίστην ἐχόντων κατʼ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον ἐντὸς τριῶν ἐτῶν ἀφείλετο τὴν ἀρχήν, Εὐαγόρα δὲ πολεμήσας ἔτη δέκα τῶν αὐτῶν κύριον αὐτὸν κατέλιπεν, ὧνπερ ἦν καὶ πρὶν εἰς τὸν πόλεμον εἰσελθεῖν. ὃ δὲ πάντων δεινότατον· τὴν γὰρ πόλιν, ἣν Εὐαγόρας ἑτέρου τυραννοῦντος μετὰ πεντήκοντʼ ἀνδρῶν εἷλε, ταύτην βασιλεὺς ὁ μέγας τοσαύτην δύναμιν ἔχων οὐχ οἷός τʼ ἐγένετο χειρώσασθαι.

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Evagoras

1. 397-394 B.C.

2. An exaggeration: it was the Spartan sea-power only that was destroyed.

3. 390-380 (?) B.C.

Isocrates Evagoras 64

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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