Isocrates, Archidamus, George Norlin (Translator), 47

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[47] But we should both grow weary, you with listening and I with speaking, if we were to examine every incident of this sort; nay, if we were to recall also our experience with Thebes , while we should be grieved over past events, we should gain better hopes for the future. For when they ventured to withstand our inroads and our threats,¹ fortune so completely reversed their situation that they, who at all other times have been in our power, now assert their right to dictate to us.

Archidamus. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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To Archidamus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 1. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 (printing).)

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[47] ἀπείποιμεν δʼ ἂν ἀκούοντές τε καὶ λέγοντες, εἰ πάσας τὰς τοιαύτας πράξεις ἐξετάζοιμεν, ἐπεὶ καὶ τῶν περὶ Θήβας πραχθέντων εἰ μνησθείημεν, ἐπὶ μὲν τοῖς γεγενημένοις ἂν λυπηθεῖμεν, περὶ δὲ τῶν μελλόντων βελτίους ἐλπίδας ἂν λάβοιμεν. τολμησάντων γὰρ αὐτῶν ὑπομεῖναι τὰς εἰσβολὰς καὶ τὰς ἀπειλὰς τὰς ἡμετέρας, εἰς τοῦθʼ ἡ τύχη τὰ πράγματʼ αὐτῶν περιέστησεν, ὥστε τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον ὑφʼ ἡμῖν ὄντες νῦν ἡμῖν προστάττειν ἀξιοῦσιν.

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Archidamus

1. Of Agesilaus in 394, 378, and 377 B.C.; of Phoebidas in 382, and of Cleombrotus in 378 and 376 B.C.

Isocrates Archidamus 47

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