Isocrates, On the Peace, George Norlin (Translator), 30

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[30] for in former times as the result of such meddlesomeness we were placed in the utmost peril,¹ while as the result of keeping our city in the path of justice and of giving aid to the oppressed and of not coveting the possessions of others we were given the hegemony by the willing consent of the Hellenes²—considerations which now and for a long time past, without reason and with utter recklessness, we have treated with contempt.

On the Peace. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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On the Peace (English) (Isocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).)

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[30] εἰκότως· καὶ γὰρ τὸ πρότερον ἐκ μὲν τῆς τοιαύτης πολυπραγμοσύνης εἰς τοὺς ἐσχάτους κινδύνους κατέστημεν, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ δικαίαν τὴν πόλιν παρέχειν καὶ βοηθεῖν τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις καὶ μὴ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμεῖν παρʼ ἑκόντων τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἐλάβομεν· ὧν νῦν ἀλογίστως καὶ λίαν εἰκῇ πολὺν ἤδη χρόνον καταφρονοῦμεν.

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On the Peace

1. At the end of the Peloponnesian War, which was the end of the Confederacy of Delos and of the Empire of Athens .

2. In 478 B.C., when the Confederacy of Delos (see Isoc. 12.67 ff. and notes)was formed, Thucydides states that the Ionian Greeks came to Athens and asked her to take the hegemony. See i. 95, 96. Cf. Isoc. 4.72 .

Isocrates On the Peace 30

George Norlin (Translator)

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