Isocrates Panathenaicus 250

ed. George Norlin

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[250]
οὓς εἴ τις ἐπέδειξεν αὐτοῖς πρὶν ἐμὲ διαλεχθῆναι περὶ αὐτῶν, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅπως οὐκ ἂν ἐμίσησαν καὶ δυσκόλως πρὸς σὲ διετέθησαν ὡς κατηγορίαν γεγραφότα καθʼ αὑτῶν. νῦν δʼ οἴομαι τοὺς μὲν πλείστους Σπαρτιατῶν ἐμμενεῖν τοῖς ἤθεσιν οἷσπερ καὶ τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον, τοῖς δὲ λόγοις τοῖς ἐνθάδε γραφομένοις οὐδὲν μᾶλλον προσέξειν τὸν νοῦν ἢ τοῖς ἔξω τῶν Ἡρακλέους στηλῶν λεγομένοις,

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).) — 250 focus

[250] “For if one were to show them a discourse of the latter sort before I had explained it to them, they would inevitably hate you and dislike you for having written in denunciation of them. As it is, I think that while most of the Lacedaemonians will continue to abide in the ways to which they have been faithful in past times and will pay no more attention to what is written in Athens than to what is said beyond the Pillars of Heracles,

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