Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 121

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[121] οἳ τοσοῦτον βελτίους ἐγένοντο τῶν τοιαύτας δυναστείας ἐχόντων, ὅσον περ ἄνδρες οἱ φρονιμώτατοι καὶ πραότατοι διενέγκοιεν ἂν θηρίων τῶν ἀγριωτάτων καὶ πλείστης ὠμότητος μεστῶν.
τί γὰρ οὐκ ἂν εὕροιμεν τῶν ὑπερβαλλόντων ἀνοσιότητι καὶ δεινότητι πεπραγμένον ἐν ταῖς ἄλλαις πόλεσι, καὶ μάλιστʼ ἐν ταῖς μεγίσταις καὶ τότε νομιζομέναις καὶ νῦν εἶναι δοκούσαις; οὐ φόνους ἀδελφῶν καὶ πατέρων καὶ ξένων παμπληθεῖς γεγενημένους;

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).) — 121 focus

[121] since they were as much superior to those who rule with absolute power as the wisest and gentlest of mankind may be said to excel the wildest and the most savage of the beasts.¹ For what among crimes that are unparalleled in their wickedness and cruelty shall we not find to have been perpetrated in the other states and especially in those which at the time of which I am speaking were considered the greatest and even now are so reputed? Has there not abounded in them murder of brothers and fathers and guest-friends;

Isocrates Panathenaicus 121

ed. George Norlin

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