Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 3

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[3] Now, however, I have completely given up these devices of rhetoric.¹ For I do not think it is becoming to the ninety-four years which I have lived nor, in general, to men whose hair has at length turned to grey² to continue to speak in this fashion, but rather in the manner which every man, should he so desire, would hope to command, although no man can easily attain it without hard work and close application.

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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[3]
νῦν δʼ οὐδʼ ὁπωσοῦν τοὺς τοιούτους. ἡγοῦμαι γὰρ οὐχ ἁρμόττειν οὔτε τοῖς ἔτεσι τοῖς ἐνενήκοντα καὶ τέτταρσιν, ἁγὼ τυγχάνω γεγονώς, οὔθʼ ὅλως τοῖς ἤδη πολιὰς ἔχουσιν, ἐκεῖνον τὸν τρόπον ἔτι λέγειν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἅπαντες μὲν ἂν ἐλπίσειαν εἰ βουληθεῖεν, οὐδεὶς δʼ ἂν δυνηθείη ῥᾳδίως πλὴν τῶν πονεῖν ἐθελόντων καὶ σφόδρα προσεχόντων τὸν νοῦν.

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Panathenaicus

1. An exaggeration. They abound in this discourse, but his earlier efforts were more ornate. Cf. Isoc. 5.27-28 , and Isoc. 15.195 .

2. An echo of Plat. Apol. 17 .

Isocrates Panathenaicus 3

George Norlin (Translator)

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