Isocrates, Antidosis, George Norlin (Translator), 319

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[319] And with what results? We have been plunged into war¹; we have seen many of our fellow-countrymen suffer, some of them dying in battle, some made prisoners of war, and others reduced to the last extremities of want; we have seen the democracy twice overthrown,² the walls which defended our country torn down³; and, worst of all, we have seen the whole city in peril of being enslaved,⁴ and our enemy encamped on the Acropolis.⁵

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

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[319] ἐξ ὧν εἰς πόλεμον καταστάντες πολλοὺς ἐπείδομεν τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺς μὲν τελευτήσαντας, τοὺς δʼ ἐπὶ τοῖς πολεμίοις γενομένους, τοὺς δʼ εἰς ἔνδειαν τῶν ἀναγκαίων καταστάντας, ἔτι δὲ τὴν δημοκρατίαν δὶς καταλυθεῖσαν καὶ τὰ τείχη τῆς πατρίδος κατασκαφέντα, τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, ὅλην τὴν πόλιν περὶ ἀνδραποδισμοῦ κινδυνεύσασαν καὶ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν τοὺς πολεμίους οἰκήσαντας.

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Antidosis

1. The Peloponnesian War.

2. First by the oligarchy of the Four Hundred in 411 B.C., secondly by the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants in 404 B.C., after the downfall of the Athenian Empire.

3. One of the terms of peace at the end of the war was that the “long walls” connecting Athens with the Piraeus should be torn down.

4. After her surrender to Sparta and the allies of Sparta at the close of the Peloponnesian War. See Isoc. 7.6 and note; Xen. Hell. 2.2.19-20 . Cf. Isoc. 8.78, 105 ; Isoc. 14.23 .

5. A Spartan garrison occupied the Acropolis during the reign of the Thirty.

Isocrates Antidosis 319

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