[105] I might go on and endeavor to speak at greater length on how you could carry on the war so as to triumph most quickly over the power of the King; but as things are, I fear that I might lay myself open to criticism if, having had no part in a soldier’s life, I should now venture to advise you, whose achievements in war are without parallel in number and magnitude. Therefore on this subject I think I need say nothing more. But to proceed with the rest of my discourse, I believe that both your own father
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and the founder of your kingdom,
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and also the progenitor of your race
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— were it lawful for Heracles and possible for the others to appear as your counsellors—would advise the very things which I have urged.
To Philip. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.
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