Isocrates Panathenaicus 156

ed. George Norlin

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[156]
ποιήσομαι δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῶν λεχθησομένων ἀκοῦσαι μὲν ἴσως τισὶν ἀηδῆ, ῥηθῆναι δʼ οὐκ ἀσύμφορον. εἰ γάρ τις φαίη τὼ πόλεε τούτω πλείστων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίας γεγενῆσθαι τοῖς Ἕλλησι καὶ μεγίστων κακῶν μετὰ τὴν Ξέρξου στρατείαν, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅπως οὐκ ἀληθῆ δόξειεν ἂν λέγειν τοῖς εἰδόσι τι περὶ τῶν τότε γεγενημένων.

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).) — 156 focus

[156] I am going to begin what I shall say on this topic with a statement which will perhaps be unpleasant for some to hear, although it will not be without profit to have it said. For if anyone were to assert that Athens and Sparta had been the causes both of the greatest benefits and, after the expedition of Xerxes, of the greatest injuries to the Hellenes, without doubt he would be thought by those who know anything about the history of those times to speak the truth.

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