Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 168

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[168] I could not, then, point out a greater service than this, rendered by our ancestors, nor one more generally beneficial to the Hellenes. But I shall, perhaps, be able to show one more particularly related to their conduct of war, and, at the same time, no less admirable and more manifest to all. For who does not himself know or has not heard from the tragic poets¹ at the Dionysia of the misfortunes which befell Adrastus² at Thebes ,

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

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Παναθηναικός Perseus (Isocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).) — 168 focus

[168]
μεῖζον μὲν οὖν εὐεργέτημα τούτου καὶ κοινότερον τοῖς Ἕλλησι γεγενημένον παρὰ τῶν προγόνων τῶν ἡμετέρων οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην ἐξευρεῖν· οἰκειότερον δὲ τῇ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπιμελείᾳ καὶ δόξης οὐκ ἐλάττονος ἄξιον καὶ πᾶσι φανερώτερον ἴσως ἕξομεν εἰπεῖν. τίς γὰρ οὐκ οἶδεν, ἢ τίς οὐκ ἀκήκοε τῶν τραγῳδοδιδασκάλων Διονυσίοις, τὰς Ἀδράστῳ γενομένας ἐν Θήβαις συμφοράς,

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Panathenaicus

1. See Aesch. Seven ; Soph. Ant. ; Eur. Phoen.

2. Compare the treatment of the Adrastus episode in Isoc. 4.54 ff.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 168

George Norlin (Translator)

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