Isocrates Areopagiticus 38

George Norlin (Translator)

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

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Ἀρεοπαγιτικός Perseus (Isocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).) — 38 focus

Notes on the current edition

Areopagiticus

1. With special reference to the archons, who became members of the Areopagus. He means that they were no longer taken necessarily from the best class of citizens. They did, however, have to undergo an examination ( εὔθυνα) on their conduct in office at the end of their term, and a further examination ( δοκιμασία) before the Council of the Areopagus to determine their worthiness to become members of that body. See Gilbert, Greek Constitutional Antiquities p. 282. What such an examination was like is described by Aristot. Ath. Pol. 55 . Perhaps such examinations became largely perfunctory, and this may be the ground of Isocrates’ complaint.