Isocrates, Archidamus, George Norlin (Translator), 66

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[66] for not one of their states is unscathed, not one but has neighbors ready to do it injury; in consequence, their fields have been laid waste, their cities sacked, their people driven from their homes, their constitutions overturned, and the laws abolished under which they were once the most fortunate among the Hellenes.¹

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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[66] οὐδʼ ἥ τις οὐχ ὁμόρους ἔχει τοὺς κακῶς ποιήσοντας, ὥστε τετμῆσθαι μὲν τὰς χώρας, πεπορθῆσθαι δὲ τὰς πόλεις, ἀναστάτους δὲ γεγενῆσθαι τοὺς οἴκους τοὺς ἰδίους, ἀνεστράφθαι δὲ τὰς πολιτείας καὶ καταλελύσθαι τοὺς νόμους, μεθʼ ὧν οἰκοῦντες εὐδαιμονέστατοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἦσαν.

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Archidamus

1. The Acheans ( Polyb. 2.38.6 ) and the Mantineans ( Ael. Var. Hist. 2.22 ) were famed for their excellent laws.

Isocrates Archidamus 66

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