Isocrates, Panathenaicus, George Norlin (Translator), 94

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[94] for, while the Lacedaemonians did not scruple to commit such wrongs both against the benefactors of Hellas and against their own kinsmen,¹ our ancestors, on the other hand, gave the surviving Messenians a home in Naupactus ² and adopted the Plataeans who had escaped with their lives as Athenian citizens and shared with them all the privileges which they themselves enjoyed.³ So that if we had nothing else to say about these two cities, it is easy to judge from these instances what was the character of each and which of the two laid waste more and greater cities.

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).) — 94 focus

[94] οἱ μὲν γὰρ περὶ τε τοὺς εὐεργέτας τῆς Ἑλλάδος καὶ τοὺς συγγενεῖς τοὺς αὑτῶν τὰ τοιαῦτʼ ἐξαμαρτάνειν ἐτόλμησαν, οἱ δʼ ἡμέτεροι Μεσσηνίων μὲν τοὺς διασωθέντας εἰς Ναύπακτον κατῴκισαν, Πλαταιέων δὲ τοὺς περιγενομένους πολίτας ἐποιήσαντο καὶ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῖς ἁπάντων μετέδοσαν. ὥστʼ εἰ μηδὲν εἴχομεν ἄλλο περὶ τοῖν πολέοιν εἰπεῖν, ἐκ τούτων ῥᾴδιον εἶναι καταμαθεῖν τὸν τρόπον ἑκατέρας αὐτῶν, καὶ ποτέρα πλείους πόλεις καὶ μείζους ἀναστάτους πεποίηκεν.

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Panathenaicus

1. Fellow-Dorians.

2. On the Corinthian gulf. For this event see Thuc. 1.103

3. See Isoc. 4 , note.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 94

George Norlin (Translator)

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