Isocrates, Areopagiticus, George Norlin (Translator), 51

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[51] for it was they who led on our youth to this spirit of heedlessness and destroyed the power of the Areopagus. For while this Council maintained its authority, Athens was not rife with law-suits,¹ or accusations,² or tax-levies,³ or poverty,⁴ or war; on the contrary, her citizens lived in accord with each other and at peace with mankind, enjoying the good will of the Hellenes and inspiring fear in the barbarians;

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

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[51] ἐκεῖνοι γὰρ ἦσαν οἱ προτρέψαντες ἐπὶ ταύτας τὰς ὀλιγωρίας καὶ καταλύσαντες τῆς βουλῆς δύναμιν. ἧς ἐπιστατούσης οὐ δικῶν οὐδʼ ἐγκλημάτων οὐδʼ εἰσφορῶν οὐδὲ πενίας οὐδὲ πολέμων ἡ πόλις ἔγεμεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἡσυχίαν εἶχον καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους ἅπαντας εἰρήνην ἦγον. παρεῖχον γὰρ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς τοῖς μὲν Ἕλλησι πιστούς,

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Areopagiticus

1. It was not yet the “litigious Athens ,” ridiculed in Aristophanes’ Wasps.

2. By the sycophants especially. See Isoc. 15.8 , note.

3. Special taxes levied for war purposes on the well-to-do citizens.

4. Athens was impoverished by her wars, Isoc. 8.19 .

Isocrates Areopagiticus 51

George Norlin (Translator)

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