Isocrates Panathenaicus 134

ed. George Norlin

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[134]
αἱ μὲν οὖν φύσεις καὶ δυνάμεις τῶν πολιτειῶν οὕτως ἔχουσιν, ἡγοῦμαι δὲ ταῦτα μὲν ἑτέροις πολὺ πλείους λόγους παρέξειν τῶν νῦν εἰρημένων, ἐμοὶ δʼ οὐκέτι περὶ ἁπασῶν αὐτῶν εἶναι διαλεκτέον, ἀλλὰ περὶ μόνης τῆς τῶν προγόνων· ταύτην γὰρ ὑπεσχόμην ἐπιδείξειν σπουδαιοτέραν καὶ πλειόνων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίαν οὖσαν τῆς ἐν Σπάρτῃ καθεστηκυίας.

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).) — 134 focus

[134] This, then, is the truth regarding the natures and powers of the several polities—a theme which will, I think, furnish to others material for much more extended discussion, although I must not speak further on the general subject but must confine myself to the polity of our ancestors. For I undertook to prove that this has been of greater worth and the source of greater benefits than the polity which obtains in Sparta .

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