Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 79

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[79]
οὐ μόνον δʼ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἄν τις ἐπαινέσειεν αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐφʼ οἷς περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ἔπραξεν. εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ μεγαλοφροσύνης ἦλθεν, ὥστʼ οὐκ ἀπέχρησεν αὐτῷ λαβεῖν στρατιώτας τῶν ἰδιωτῶν ὁπόσους ἐξ ἑκάστης ἐβουλήθη τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλὰ τοὺς βασιλεῖς τοὺς ποιοῦντας ἐν ταῖς αὑτῶν ὅ τι βουληθεῖεν καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις προστάττοντας, τούτους ἔπεισεν ὑφʼ αὑτῷ γενέσθαι, καὶ συνακολουθεῖν ἐφʼ οὓς ἂν ἡγῆται, καὶ ποιεῖν τὸ προσταττόμενον, καὶ βασιλικὸν βίον ἀφέντας στρατιωτικῶς ζῆν,

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).) — 79 focus

[79] But not for these things alone might one extol him, but also for the things he did at the same time. For he conceived of his mission in terms so lofty that he was not satisfied with making up his army from all the men in private station whom he desired to have from each of the cities of Hellas , but even persuaded men of the rank of kings, who were accustomed to do in their own states whatsoever they pleased and to give orders to the world at large, to place themselves under his command, to follow him against whomsoever he might lead them, to obey his orders, to abandon their royal manner of living and to share the life of soldiers in the field,

Isocrates Panathenaicus 79

ed. George Norlin

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