Isocrates, Archidamus, George Norlin (Translator), 68

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[68] having ceased sacrificing victims at the altars they slaughter one another¹ there instead; and more people are in exile now from a single city than before from the whole of the Peloponnesus . But although the miseries which I have recounted are so many, those which remain unmentioned far outnumber them; for all the distress and all the horror in the world have come together in this one region.

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

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Ἀρχίδαμος Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 1. Norlin, George, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 (printing).) — 68 focus

[68] καταλύσαντες δὲ τὰς θυσίας ἐπὶ τῶν βωμῶν σφάττουσιν ἀλλήλους· πλείους δὲ φεύγουσι νῦν ἐκ μιᾶς πόλεως ἢ πρότερον ἐξ ἁπάσης τῆς Πελοποννήσου. καὶ τοσούτων ἀπηριθμημένων κακῶν, πολὺ πλείω τὰ παραλελειμμένα τῶν εἰρημένων ἐστίν· οὐδὲν γὰρ ὅ τι τῶν δεινῶν ἢ χαλεπῶν οὐκ ἐνταῦθα συνδεδράμηκεν.

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Archidamus

1. Possibly Isocrates may have in mind the massacre at Corinth in 392 B.C. ( Xen. Hell. 4.4.3 ), the murder of certain Achaean suppliants, who took refuge in the temple of Heliconian Poseidon (Pausanias vii. 25), or the slaughter of 1200 prominent citizens in Argos in 371 B.C. (Diodorus xv. 58). Cf. Isoc. 5.52 .

Isocrates Archidamus 68

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