Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 143

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[143]
ἃς ἐκεῖνοι μισήσαντες καὶ τοὺς ἔχοντας αὐτάς, ἐποιοῦντο συμβούλους καὶ προστάτας οὐ τοὺς τυχόντας ἀλλὰ τοὺς βελτίστους καὶ φρονιμωτάτους καὶ κάλλιστα βεβιωκότας, καὶ τοὺς αὐτοὺς τούτους στρατηγοὺς ᾑροῦντο καὶ πρέσβεις, εἴ που δεήσειεν, ἔπεμπον, καὶ πάσας τὰς ἡγεμονίας τὰς τῆς πόλεως αὐτοῖς παρεδίδοσαν, νομίζοντες τοὺς ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος βουλομένους καὶ δυναμένους τὰ βέλτιστα συμβουλεύειν, τούτους καὶ καθʼ αὑτοὺς γενομένους ἐν ἅπασι τοῖς τόποις καὶ περὶ ἁπάσας τὰς πράξεις τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην ἕξειν· ἅπερ αὐτοῖς συνέβαινεν.

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).) — 143 focus

[143] Abhorring these iniquities and the men who practise them, our forefathers set up as counsellors and leaders of the state, not any and everyone, but those who were the wisest and the best and who had lived the noblest lives among them, and they chose these same men as their generals in the field¹ and sent them forth as ambassadors, wherever any need arose, and they gave over to them the entire guidance of the state, believing that those who desired and were able to give the best counsel from the platform would, when by themselves, no matter in what regions of the world or on what enterprise engaged, be of the same way of thinking.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 143

ed. George Norlin

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