Isocrates, Archidamus, George Norlin (Translator), 73

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[73] For I declare that we must send our parents and our wives and children and the mass of the people away from Sparta , some to Sicily , some to Cyrene , others to the mainland of Asia,¹ where the inhabitants will all gladly welcome them with gifts of ample lands and of the other means of livelihood as well, partly in gratitude for favors which they have received and partly in expectation of the return of favors which they first bestow.

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

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[73] φημὶ γὰρ χρῆναι τοὺς μὲν γονέας τοὺς ἡμετέρους αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺς παῖδας καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν ἄλλον ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἐκπέμψαι, τοὺς μὲν εἰς Σικελίαν,¹ τοὺς δʼ εἰς Κυρήνην, τοὺς δʼ εἰς τὴν ἤπειρον (ἄσμενοι δʼ αὐτοὺς ἅπαντες οὗτοι δέξονται καὶ χώρᾳ πολλῇ καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ταῖς περὶ τὸν βίον εὐπορίαις, οἱ μὲν χάριν ἀποδιδόντες ὧν εὖ πεπόνθασιν, οἱ δὲ κομιεῖσθαι προσδοκῶντες ὧν ἂν προϋπάρξωσιν),

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Archidamus

1. Greek emigration from the home country was commonly towards the far west ( Sicily ), the east (coast of Asia Minor ), or the south ( Cyrene ). Moreover, Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse and the “dynasts” in Asia were friendly to the Spartans (see § 63), and Cyrene was a Spartan settlement (see Isoc. 5.5 ).

Isocrates Archidamus 73

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