Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 115

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[115] So that no one could justly condemn those who chose our present polity.¹ For they were not disappointed in their expectations, nor were they at all blind to both the good and the bad features attached to either form of rule, but, on the contrary, saw clearly that while a land-power is fostered by order and sobriety and discipline and other like qualities,² a sea-power is not augmented by these

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).) — 115 focus

[115] ὥστʼ οὐδεὶς ἂν δικαίως ἐπιτιμήσειε τοῖς ἑλομένοις αὐτήν· οὐ γὰρ διήμαρτον τῶν ἐλπίδων, οὐδʼ ἠγνόησαν οὐδὲν οὔτε τῶν ἀγαθῶν οὔτε τῶν κακῶν τῶν προσόντων ἑκατέρᾳ τῶν δυνάμεων, ἀλλʼ ἀκριβῶς ᾔδεσαν τὴν μὲν κατὰ γῆν ἡγεμονίαν ὑπʼ εὐταξίας καὶ σωφροσύνης καὶ πειθαρχίας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων μελετωμένην, τὴν δὲ κατὰ θάλατταν δύναμιν οὐκ ἐκ τούτων αὐξανομένην,

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Panathenaicus

1. This making a virtue of necessity is inconsistent with Isocrates’ uncompromising attitude toward the excesses of the later democracy in the Isoc. 7. , the Isoc. 8. , and even in this discourse.

2. Cf. Isoc. 8.102 .

Isocrates Panathenaicus 115

George Norlin (Translator)

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