Isocrates Panathenaicus 20

ed. George Norlin

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[20]
ὡς μὲν οὖν ἐλυπήθην καὶ συνεταράχθην ἀκούσας ἀποδέξασθαί τινας τοὺς λόγους τούτους, οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην εἰπεῖν· ᾤμην γὰρ οὕτως ἐπιφανὴς εἶναι τοῖς ἀλαζονευομένοις πολεμῶν καὶ περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ μετρίως διειλεγμένος, μᾶλλον δὲ ταπεινῶς, ὥστε μηδένʼ ἄν ποτε γενέσθαι πιστὸν τῶν λεγόντων ὡς ἐγὼ τοιαύταις ἀλαζονείαις ἐχρησάμην.

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).) — 20 focus

[20] Now I could not possibly convey to you how troubled and disturbed I was on hearing that some accepted these statements as true. For I thought that it was so well known that I was waging war against the false pretenders to wisdom and that I had spoken so moderately, nay so modestly, about my own powers that no one could be credited for a moment who asserted that I myself resorted to such pretensions.

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