Isocrates, To Philip, George Norlin (Translator), 58

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[58] Consider first the exploits of Alcibiades.¹ Although he was exiled from Athens ² and observed that the others who had before labored under this misfortune had been cowed³ because of the greatness of the city, yet he did not show the same submissive spirit as they; on the contrary, convinced that he must attempt to bring about his return by force, he deliberately chose to make war upon her.⁴

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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[58] σκέψαι δὲ πρῶτον τὰ περὶ Ἀλκιβιάδην. ἐκεῖνος γὰρ φυγὼν παρʼ ἡμῶν, καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ὁρῶν τοὺς πρὸ αὑτοῦ ταύτῃ συμφορᾷ κεχρημένους ἐπτηχότας διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τὸ τῆς πόλεως, οὐ τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην ἔσχεν ἐκείνοις, ἀλλʼ οἰηθεὶς πειρατέον εἶναι βίᾳ κατελθεῖν προείλετο πολεμεῖν πρὸς αὐτήν.

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To Philip

1. For the career of the brilliant, unscrupulous Alcibiades see Grote, Hist. vi. pp. 301 ff., vii. 49 ff., and Plut. Alc.

2. He was exiled on the charge of having profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries.

3. For example, Themistocles.

4. By stirring up and aiding, through his great personal influence and his sagacity, all the enemies of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

Isocrates To Philip 58

George Norlin (Translator)

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