Isocrates To Philip 100

George Norlin (Translator)

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[100] ἔπειθʼ ὁ μὲν τὴν Ἀσίαν ἅπασαν παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐν ταῖς συνθήκαις ἐξέλαβεν, οὗτος δὲ τοσούτου δεῖ τῶν ἄλλων ἄρχειν, ὥστʼ οὐδὲ τῶν ἐκδοθεισῶν αὐτῷ πόλεων ἐγκρατής ἐστιν. ὥστʼ οὐδεὶς ὅστις οὐκ ἂν ἀπορήσειε, πότερα χρὴ νομίζειν τοῦτον αὐτῶν ἀφεστάναι διʼ ἀνανδρίαν, ἢ ʼκείνας ὑπερεωρακέναι καὶ καταπεφρονηκέναι τῆς βαρβαρικῆς δυναστείας.

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

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Φίλιππος (Greek) (Isocrates, Vol. 1. Norlin, George, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 (printing).)

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To Philip Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 1. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 (printing).) — 100 focus

[100] Secondly, the former took the whole of Asia from the Hellenes by the terms of the Treaty¹; while this King is so far from exercising dominion over others that he is not in control even of the cities which were surrendered to him; and such is the state of affairs that there is no one who is not in doubt what to believe—whether he has given them up because of his cowardice, or whether they have learned to despise and contemn the power of the barbarians.

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