Isocrates, Panathenaicus, ed. George Norlin, 98

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τοῦ δὲ λέγεσθαι ταῦτα καὶ πολὺ πλείω καὶ πικρότερα τούτων οὐχ ἡμεῖς αἴτιοι γεγόναμεν, ἀλλʼ οἱ νῦν μὲν ἐν τοῖς λεγομένοις ἡμῖν ἀντιτεταγμένοι, τὸν δʼ ἄλλον χρόνον ἐν τοῖς πραττομένοις ἅπασιν. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἡμετέρους προγόνους οὐδεὶς ἂν ἐπιδείξειεν ἐν τοῖς ἐπέκεινα χρόνοις τοῖς ἀναριθμήτοις οὐδεμιᾶς πόλεως οὔτε μείζονος οὔτʼ ἐλάττονος ἄρχειν ἐπιχειρήσαντας· Λακεδαιμονίους δὲ πάντες ἴσασιν, ἀφʼ οὗ περ εἰς Πελοπόννησον εἰσῆλθον, οὐδὲν ἄλλο πράττοντας οὐδὲ βουλευομένους πλὴν ὅπως μάλιστα μὲν ἁπάντων ἄρξουσιν, εἰ δὲ μή, Πελοποννησίων.

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).) — 98 focus

[98] But it is not the fault of the Athenians that these complaints are made and many others more bitter than these, but rather of those who now in what is being said, as in times past in all that has been done, have been in the opposite camp from us. For no man can show that our ancestors during the countless years of our early history ever attempted to impose our rule over any city great or small, whereas all men know that the Lacedaemonians, from the time when they entered the Peloponnesus , have had no other object in their deeds or in their designs than to impose their rule if possible over all men but, failing that, over the peoples of the Peloponnesus .

Isocrates Panathenaicus 98

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