Isocrates, To Dionysius, ed. Larue Van Hook, 1

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[1] If I were younger, I should not be sending you a letter, but should myself take ship and converse with you there; but inasmuch as it so happens that the fruitful period of my life and that of your own affairs have not coincided — since I am already spent with years, and with you it is the high time for action — I shall try to disclose to you my views about the situation as well as I can in the circumstances.

To Dionysius. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Letter 1: To Dionysius (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Ἐπιστολαὶ αʹ Διονύσιῳ Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 1 focus

[1] εἰ μὲν νεώτερος ἦν, οὐκ ἂν ἐπιστολὴν ἔπεμπον, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸς ἄν σοι πλεύσας ἐνταῦθα διελέχθην· ἐπειδὴ δ’ οὐ κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους ὅ τε τῆς ἡλικίας τῆς ἐμῆς καιρὸς καὶ τῶν σῶν πραγμάτων συμβέβηκεν, ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ μὲν προαπείρηκα, τὰ δὲ πράττεσθαι νῦν ἀκμὴν εἴληφεν, ὡς οἷόν τ’ ἐστὶν ἐκ τῶν παρόντων, οὕτω σοι πειράσομαι δηλῶσαι περὶ αὐτῶν.

Isocrates To Dionysius 1

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