Isocrates, Areopagiticus, George Norlin (Translator), 17

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[17] a government than which we could find none more favorable to the populace or more advantageous to the whole city.¹ The strongest proof of this is that those who enjoyed this constitution wrought many noble deeds, won the admiration of all mankind, and took their place, by the common consent of the Hellenes, as the leading power of Hellas ; whereas those who were enamored of the present constitution made themselves hated of all men, suffered many indignities, and barely escaped falling into the worst of all disasters.²

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

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[17] ἧς οὐκ ἂν εὕροιμεν οὔτε δημοτικωτέραν οὔτε τῇ πόλει μᾶλλον συμφέρουσαν. τεκμήριον δὲ μέγιστον· οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐκείνῃ χρώμενοι, πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ διαπραξάμενοι καὶ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκιμήσαντες, παρʼ ἑκόντων τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἔλαβον, οἱ δὲ τῆς νῦν παρούσης ἐπιθυμήσαντες, ὑπὸ πάντων μισηθέντες καὶ πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ παθόντες, μικρὸν ἀπέλιπον τοῦ μὴ ταῖς ἐσχάταις συμφοραῖς περιπεσεῖν.

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Areopagiticus

1. For Solon and Cleisthenes as the authors of the restricted democracy of Athens cf. Isoc. 15.232 . For Isocrates’ political ideas see General Introduction p. xxxviii.

2. Cf. Isoc. 7.6 and note.

Isocrates Areopagiticus 17

George Norlin (Translator)

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