Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 196

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[196]
τούτους δʼ ἅπαντας οὓς διῆλθον, οὐ μετʼ ἀλλήλων εἰσβαλόντας οὐδὲ κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους, ἀλλʼ ὡς οἵ τε καιροὶ καὶ τὸ συμφέρον ἑκάστοις καὶ τὸ βούλεσθαι συνέπιπτε, μάχῃ νικήσαντες καὶ τῆς ὕβρεως παύσαντες, οὐκ ἐξέστησαν αὑτῶν τηλικαῦτα διαπραξάμενοι τὸ μέγεθος, οὐδʼ ἔπαθον ταὐτὸ τοῖς διὰ μὲν τὸ καλῶς καὶ φρονίμως βουλεύσασθαι καὶ πλούτους μεγάλους καὶ δόξας καλὰς κτησαμένοις, διὰ δὲ τὰς ὑπερβολὰς τὰς τούτων ὑπερηφάνοις γενομένοις καὶ τὴν φρόνησιν διαφθαρεῖσι καὶ κατενεχθεῖσιν εἰς χείρω πράγματα καὶ ταπεινότερα τῶν πρότερον αὐτοῖς ὑπαρχόντων,

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).) — 196 focus

[196] All these whom I have instanced, having invaded our country—not together nor at the same time, but as opportunity and self-interest and desire concurred in each case—our ancestors conquered in battle and put an end to their insolence. And yet they did not forsake their true selves¹ after they had achieved successes of such magnitude nor did they experience the same misadventure as those who, owing to the exercise of good and wise judgement, have attained great wealth and good reputation, but who, owing to excess of good fortune, have grown overweening, lost their senses, and have been brought down to lower and meaner circumstances than those which they enjoyed before.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 196

ed. George Norlin

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