Isocrates, On the Peace, George Norlin (Translator), 88

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[88] And at last, before they knew it, they had filled the public burial-grounds¹ with the bodies of their fellow citizens and the registers of the phratries and of the state² with the names of those who had no claim upon the city. And you may judge of the multitude of the slain from this fact: The families of the most illustrious Athenians and our greatest houses, which survived the civil conflicts under the tyrants³ and the Persian Wars as well, have been, you will find, entirely wiped out⁴ under this empire upon which we set our hearts.

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

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[88] τελευτῶντες δʼ ἔλαθον σφᾶς αὐτοὺς τοὺς μὲν τάφους τοὺς δημοσίους τῶν πολιτῶν ἐμπλήσαντες, τὰς δὲ φρατρίας καὶ τὰ γραμματεῖα τὰ ληξιαρχικὰ τῶν οὐδὲν τῇ πόλει προσηκόντων. γνοίη δʼ ἄν τις ἐκεῖθεν μάλιστα τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἀπολλυμένων· τὰ γὰρ γένη τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν ὀνομαστοτάτων καὶ τοὺς οἴκους τοὺς μεγίστους, οἳ καὶ τὰς τυραννικὰς στάσεις καὶ τὸν Περσικὸν πόλεμον διέφυγον, εὑρήσομεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς, ἧς ἐπιθυμοῦμεν, ἀναστάτους γεγενημένους.

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On the Peace

1. The Ceramicus.

2. Cf. Isoc. 8.50 . All citizens were duly enrolled in the phratry registers, φρατορικὰ γραμματεῖα and in the state registers, kept in each township, ληξιαρχικὰ γραμματεῖα.

3. Pisitratus and his sons, Hippias and Hipparchus. See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 18 .

4. Cf. Isoc. 8.4 .

Isocrates On the Peace 88

George Norlin (Translator)

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