Isocrates Panathenaicus 255

ed. George Norlin

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[255]
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν μετὰ πάντων συστρατευσαμένων ἔπραξαν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ πρὸς Ἀργείους καὶ Μεσσηνίους τὴν χώραν διείλοντο καὶ καθʼ αὑτοὺς ἐν Σπάρτῃ κατῴκησαν, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς καιροῖς τοσοῦτον φρονῆσαι φῂς αὐτούς, ὥστε ὄντας οὐ πλείους τότε δισχιλίων οὐχ ἡγήσασθαι σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἀξίους εἶναι ζῆν, εἰ μὴ δεσπόται πασῶν τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ πόλεων γενέσθαι δυνηθεῖεν,

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).) — 255 focus

[255] “These were victories won with the aid of all who joined in that expedition. But after they had divided the territory with the Argives and the Messenians and for themselves had settled in Sparta—at this juncture, as you say, they were so proud that although they then numbered no more than two thousand men¹ they considered themselves unworthy to live unless they could make themselves masters of all the cities in the Peloponnesus .

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