Isocrates Panathenaicus 119

ed. George Norlin

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[119]
ἤδη δὲ περὶ ἧς τε ὑπεθέμην καὶ τῶν προγόνων ποιήσομαι τοὺς λόγους, ἐκείνων τῶν χρόνων ἐπιλαβόμενος ὅτʼ οὐκ ἦν οὔτʼ ὀλιγαρχίας οὔτε δημοκρατίας ὄνομά πω λεγόμενον, ἀλλὰ μοναρχίαι καὶ τὰ γένη τὰ τῶν βαρβάρων καὶ τὰς πόλεις τὰς Ἑλληνίδας ἁπάσας διῴκουν.

Panathenaicus. Isocrates. ed. George Norlin. Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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

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Panathenaicus Perseus (IIsocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).) — 119 focus

[119] I shall now proceed to speak about the polity which I took for my subject and about our ancestors, going back to the early times when neither the word oligarchy nor the word democracy was as yet in our speech, but when monarchies governed both the barbaric races and all the Hellenic states.

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