Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 24

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[24]
ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδʼ ἐκεῖνο ποιεῖν οὐδεὶς ἄν μοι συμβουλεύσειεν, ἀμελήσαντι τούτων καὶ μεταξὺ καταβαλόντι περαίνειν τὸν λόγον, ὃν προῄρημαι βουλόμενος ἐπιδεῖξαι τὴν πόλιν ἡμῶν πλειόνων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίαν γεγενημένην τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἢ τὴν Λακεδαιμονίων· εἰ γὰρ τοῦτʼ ἤδη ποιοίην μήτε τέλος ἐπιθεὶς τοῖς γεγραμμένοις μήτε συγκλείσας τὴν ἀρχὴν τῶν ῥηθήσεσθαι μελλόντων τῇ τελευτῇ τῶν ἤδη προειρημένων, ὅμοιος ἂν εἶναι δόξαιμι τοῖς εἰκῇ καὶ φορτικῶς καὶ χύδην ὅ τι ἂν ἐπέλθῃ λέγουσιν· ἃ φυλακτέον ἡμῖν ἐστιν.

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).) — 24 focus

[24] But neither would anyone, I am sure, advise me to neglect this subject and, breaking off in the midst of it, to go on and finish the discourse which I elected to write in my desire to prove that our city had been the cause of more blessings to the Hellenes than the city of the Lacedaemonians. For if I should now proceed to do this without bringing what I have written to any conclusion and without joining the beginning of what is to be said to the end of what has been spoken, I should be thought to be no better than those who speak in a random, slovenly, and scattering manner whatever comes into their heads to say. And this I must guard against.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 24

ed. George Norlin

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