Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 148

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[148]
σημεῖον δὲ μέγιστον ὅτι ταῦτʼ ἠγάπων μᾶλλον ἢ ʼγὼ λέγω· φαίνεται γὰρ ὁ δῆμος ταῖς μὲν ἄλλαις πολιτείαις ταῖς οὐκ ἀρεσκούσαις μαχόμενος καὶ καταλύων καὶ τοὺς προεστῶτας αὐτῶν ἀποκτείνων, ταύτῃ δὲ χρώμενος οὐκ ἐλάττω χιλίων ἐτῶν, ἀλλʼ ἐμμείνας ἀφʼ οὗ περ ἔλαβε μέχρι τῆς Σόλωνος μὲν ἡλικίας Πεισιστράτου δὲ δυναστείας, ὃς δημαγωγὸς γενόμενος καὶ πολλὰ τὴν πόλιν λυμηνάμενος καὶ τοὺς βελτίστους τῶν πολιτῶν ὡς ὀλιγαρχικοὺς ὄντας ἐκβαλών, τελευτῶν τόν τε δῆμον κατέλυσε καὶ τύραννον αὑτὸν κατέστησεν.

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).) — 148 focus

[148] And the greatest proof that they were even better satisfied with this regime than I say is this: we see the people at war with other polities which fail to please them, overturning them and slaying those at their head, but continuing to enjoy this polity for not less than a thousand years,¹ remaining loyal to it from the time when they received it down to the age of Solon and the tyranny of Pisistratus, who, after he had placed himself at the head of the people and done much harm to the city and driven out the best of her citizens as being partizans of oligarchy, brought an end to the rule of the people and set himself up as their master.²

Isocrates Panathenaicus 148

ed. George Norlin

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