Isocrates Panathenaicus 139

ed. George Norlin

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[139]
ἃ μαθὼν ὁ δῆμος οὐκ ἐπελάθετο διὰ τὴν μεταβολήν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον τούτῳ προσεῖχεν ἢ τοῖς ἄλλοις, ὅπως λήψεται τοὺς ἡγεμόνας δημοκρατίας μὲν ἐπιθυμοῦντας, τὸ δʼ ἦθος τοιοῦτον ἔχοντας οἷόν περ οἱ πρότερον ἐπιστατοῦντες αὐτῶν, καὶ μὴ λήσουσι σφᾶς αὐτοὺς κυρίους ἁπάντων τῶν κοινῶν καταστήσαντες οἷς οὐδεὶς ἂν οὐδὲν τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιτρέψειεν,

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).) — 139 focus

[139] Having learned this truth, the people did not forget it on account of the change in the constitution, but rather gave their minds to this one endeavor before all others: to obtain as their leaders men who were in sympathy with democracy, but were possessed of the same character as those who were formerly at the head of the state; and not unwittingly to place in charge of the whole commonwealth men to whom no one would entrust a single detail of his private interests;¹

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