Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 2

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[2] especially if they wish to have the advantage over their adversaries.¹ No, I left all these to others and devoted my own efforts to giving advice on the true interests of Athens and of the rest of the Hellenes,² writing in a style rich in many telling points, in contrasted and balanced phrases not a few,³ and in the other figures of speech which give brilliance to oratory⁴ and compel the approbation and applause of the audience.

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).) — 2 focus

[2] ἀλλὰ πάντας τούτους ἐάσας περὶ ἐκείνους ἐπραγματευόμην, τοὺς περὶ τῶν συμφερόντων τῇ τε πόλει καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις Ἕλλησι συμβουλεύοντας, καὶ πολλῶν μὲν ἐνθυμημάτων γέμοντας, οὐκ ὀλίγων δʼ ἀντιθέσεων καὶ παρισώσεων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἰδεῶν τῶν ἐν ταῖς ῥητορείαις διαλαμπουσῶν καὶ τοὺς ἀκούοντας ἐπισημαίνεσθαι καὶ θορυβεῖν ἀναγκαζουσῶν.

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Panathenaicus

1. Isocrates despised this kind of writing. See General Introduction.

2. See General Introduction.

3. The Gorgian figures, antithesis and parisosis, which Dionysius of Halicarnassus complained ( Dion. Hal. Isoc. 14 ) were excessively used in the Isoc. 4.71-81 .

4. See General Introduction.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 2

George Norlin (Translator)

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