Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 205

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[205] These things being so, if you speak the truth when you assert that they were the discoverers of the best ways of life, then it must follow that those who lived many generations before the Spartans settled there had no part in them—neither those who made the expedition against Troy nor those who were of the generation of Heracles and Theseus or of Minos, son of Zeus, or Rhadamanthus or Aeacus¹ or any of the others who are celebrated in song for the virtues which I have mentioned, but that all of them have in this respect a reputation which is false.

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

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[205] τούτων δʼ οὕτως ἐχόντων, εἰ μὲν τυγχάνεις ἀληθῆ λέγων τούτους φάσκων εὑρετὰς γεγενῆσθαι τῶν καλλίστων ἐπιτηδευμάτων, ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι τοὺς πολλαῖς γενεαῖς πρότερον γεγονότας, πρὶν Σπαρτιάτας ἐνταῦθα κατοικῆσαι, μὴ μετέχειν αὐτῶν, μήτε τοὺς ἐπὶ Τροίαν στρατευσαμένους μήτε τοὺς περὶ Ἡρακλέα καὶ Θησέα γεγονότας μήτε Μίνω τὸν Διὸς μήτε Ῥαδάμανθυν μήτʼ Αἰακὸν μήτε τῶν ἄλλων μηδένα τῶν ὑμνουμένων ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀρεταῖς ταύταις, ἀλλὰ ψευδῆ τὴν δόξαν ταύτην ἅπαντας ἔχειν· εἰ δὲ σὺ μὲν φλυαρῶν τυγχάνεις,

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Panathenaicus

1. Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus are half-legendary kings famed for their virtues, and especially their justice. they are sometimes pictured as dispensing justice in the world of the dead. See Plat. Gorg. 523 .

Isocrates Panathenaicus 205

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