Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 100

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[100] But when the Lacedaemonians, after having been in the position of dictators over the Hellenes, were being driven from control of affairs—at that juncture, when the other cities were rent by faction, two or three of our generals (I will not hide the truth from you) mistreated some of them, thinking that if they should imitate the deeds of Spartans they would be better able to control them.¹

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

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Panathenaicus (English) (IIsocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).)

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Παναθηναικός Perseus (Isocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).) — 100 focus

[100] ἄλλʼ ἐπειδὴ Λακεδαιμόνιοι κύριοι καταστάντες τῶν Ἑλλήνων πάλιν ἐξέπιπτον ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς καιροῖς στασιαζουσῶν τῶν ἄλλων, πόλεων δύʼ ἢ τρεῖς τῶν στρατηγῶν τῶν ἡμετέρων, οὐ γὰρ ἀποκρύψομαι τἀληθές, ἐξήμαρτον περί τινας αὐτῶν ἐλπίζοντες, ἢν μιμήσωνται τὰς Σπαρτιατῶν πράξεις, μᾶλλον αὐτὰς δυνήσεσθαι κατασχεῖν.

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Panathenaicus

1. See, however, Isocrates’ bitter attack upon the Athenian militaristic policy in On the Peace, especially Isoc. 8.44 . Among the Athenian generals, he is here thinking mainly of Chares (the enemy and opposite of his friend and pupil, Timotheus. See Isoc. 15.129 and note), who seems to have uniformly preferred force to persuasion or conciliation in the treatment of the Athenian allies. See Introduction to Isoc. 8 .

Isocrates Panathenaicus 100

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