Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 59

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[59]
τὰ τοίνυν πρὸς τοὺς βαρβάρους ὡς ἑκάτεροι προσηνέχθημεν, δηλωτέον· ἔτι γὰρ τοῦτο λοιπόν ἐστιν. ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ τῆς ἡμετέρας δυναστείας οὐκ ἐξῆν αὐτοῖς οὔτʼ ἐντὸς Ἅλυος πεζῷ στρατοπέδῳ καταβαίνειν οὔτε μακροῖς πλοίοις ἐπὶ τάδε πλεῖν Φασήλιδος· ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Λακεδαιμονίων οὐ μόνον τοῦ πορεύεσθαι καὶ πλεῖν ὅποι βουληθεῖεν ἐξουσίαν ἔλαβον, ἀλλὰ καὶ δεσπόται πολλῶν Ἑλληνίδων πόλεων κατέστησαν.

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).) — 59 focus

[59] Again, I must set forth how these two cities demeaned themselves toward the barbarians;¹ for this still remains to be done. In the time of our supremacy, the barbarians were prevented from marching with an army beyond the Halys river ² and from sailing with their ships of war this side of Phaselis,³ but under the hegemony of the Lacedaemonians not only did they gain the freedom to march and sail wherever they pleased, but they even became masters over many Hellenic states.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 59

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