Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 96

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[96]
ἐπειδή περ οὖν ἐπελήλυθέ μοι τὸ παρρησιάζεσθαι, καὶ λέλυκα τὸ στόμα, καὶ τοιαύτην τὴν ὑπόθεσιν ἐποιησάμην ὥστε μήτε καλὸν εἶναί μοι μήτε δυνατὸν παραλιπεῖν τὰς τοιαύτας πράξεις, ἐξ ὧν οἷόν τʼ ἐστὶν ἐπιδεικνύναι πλέονος ἀξίαν τὴν πόλιν ἡμῶν γεγενημένην περὶ τοὺς Ἕλληνας τῆς Λακεδαιμονίων, οὐ κατασιωπητέον οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων κακῶν τῶν οὔπω μὲν εἰρημένων ἐν δὲ τοῖς Ἕλλησι γεγενημένων, ἀλλʼ ἐπιδεικτέον τοὺς μὲν ἡμετέρους ὀψιμαθεῖς αὐτῶν γεγενημένους, Λακεδαιμονίους δὲ τὰ μὲν πρώτους τὰ δὲ μόνους ἐξαμαρτόντας.

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).) — 96 focus

[96] Since, however, the impulse has come to me to speak frankly and I have removed the curb from my tongue, and since I took a subject which is of such a character that it is neither honorable nor possible to leave out the kind of facts from which it can be proved that our city has been of greater service to the Hellenes than Lacedaemon , I must not be silent either about the other wrongs which have not yet been told, albeit they have been done among the Hellenes, but must show that our ancestors have been slow pupils¹ in wrong-doing, whereas the Lacedaemonians have in some respects been the first to point the way and in others have been the sole offenders.

Isocrates Panathenaicus 96

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