Isocrates, Evagoras, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 8

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[8] I am fully aware that what I propose to do is difficult—to eulogize in prose the virtues of a man. The best proof is this: Those who devote themselves to philosophy¹ venture to speak on many subjects of every kind, but no one of them has ever attempted to compose a discourse on such a theme.² And I can make much allowance for them. For to the poets is granted the use of many embellishments of language,

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).) — 8 focus

[8] οἶδα μὲν οὖν ὅτι χαλεπόν ἐστιν ὃ μέλλω ποιεῖν, ἀνδρὸς ἀρετὴν διὰ λόγων ἐγκωμιάζειν. σημεῖον δὲ μέγιστον· περὶ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλων πολλῶν καὶ παντοδαπῶν λέγειν τολμῶσιν οἱ περὶ τὴν φιλοσοφίαν ὄντες, περὶ δὲ τῶν τοιούτων οὐδεὶς πώποτʼ αὐτῶν συγγράφειν ἐπεχείρησεν. καὶ πολλὴν αὐτοῖς ἔχω συγγνώμην. τοῖς μὲν γὰρ ποιηταῖς πολλοὶ δέδονται κόσμοι·

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Evagoras

1. Really oratory and rhetoric: for the meaning of “philosophy” in Isocrates see the General Introd., Vol. I, p. xxvi.

2. Prose encomia existed before this time, but they were mostly exercises on mythical subjects written by Sophists.

Isocrates Evagoras 8

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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