Isocrates, To Philip, George Norlin (Translator), 49

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[49] and victory has none the more delivered them from their ills; nay, they are now warred upon by their neighbors¹; they are distrusted by all the Peloponnesians²; they are hated by most of the Hellenes³; they are harried and plundered day and night by their own serfs⁴; and not a day passes that they do not have to take the field or fight against some force or other, or march to the rescue of their perishing comrades.

To Philip. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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To Philip (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 1. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 (printing).)

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[49] νικήσαντες δʼ οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἀπηλλαγμένοι τῶν κακῶν εἰσιν, ἀλλὰ πολεμοῦνται μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν περιοικούντων, ἀπιστοῦνται δʼ ὑφʼ ἁπάντων Πελοποννησίων, μισοῦνται δʼ ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἄγονται δὲ καὶ φέρονται καὶ τῆς νυκτὸς καὶ τῆς ἡμέρας ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκετῶν τῶν σφετέρων αὐτῶν, οὐδένα δὲ χρόνον διαλείπουσιν ἢ στρατεύοντες ἐπί τινας ἢ μαχόμενοι πρός τινας ἢ βοηθοῦντες τοῖς ἀπολλυμένοις αὑτῶν.

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To Philip

1. The Argives and the Messenians were allied with Philip against Sparta . See Dem. 6.9, 15 .

2. Besides the Argives and Messenians, also the Arcadians, the Megalopolitans, the Eleans, and the Sicyonians. Dio. Sic. 16.39 .

3. Especially by the Athenians and the Thebans. Dem. 16.22-23 .

4. The Helots.

Isocrates To Philip 49

George Norlin (Translator)

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