Isocrates, Evagoras, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 78

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[78] And do not imagine that I am reproaching you for indifference at present, because I often admonish you on the same subject.¹ For it has not escaped the notice of either me or anyone else that you, Nicocles, are the first and the only one of those who possess royal power, wealth, and luxury who has undertaken to pursue the study of philosophy, nor that you will cause many kings, emulating your culture, to desire these studies and to abandon the pursuits in which they now take too great pleasure.

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

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[78] καὶ μὴ νόμιζέ με καταγιγνώσκειν, ὡς νῦν ἀμελεῖς, ὅτι πολλάκις σοι διακελεύομαι περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν. οὐ γὰρ οὔτʼ ἐμὲ λέληθας οὔτε τοὺς ἄλλους ὅτι καὶ πρῶτος καὶ μόνος τῶν ἐν τυραννίδι καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ τρυφαῖς ὄντων φιλοσοφεῖν καὶ πονεῖν ἐπικεχείρηκας, οὐδʼ ὅτι πολλοὺς τῶν βασιλέων ποιήσεις ζηλώσαντας τὴν σὴν παίδευσιν τούτων τῶν διατριβῶν ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἀφεμένους ἐφʼ οἷς νῦν λίαν χαίρουσιν.

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1. See Isocrates, Vol. I, p. 39, L.C.L., Introd. to the discourse To Nicocles, Isoc. 2 .

Isocrates Evagoras 78

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