Isocrates, To the Children of Jason, ed. Larue Van Hook, 11

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[11] Perhaps some one of those who choose to live planlessly may attempt to disparage such reasoning and ask that I give my advice forthwith with regard to what has just been said. Hence I must not shrink from declaring my honest opinion about it. To me the life of a private citizen seems preferable and better than that of a king, and I regard the honors received under constitutional governments as more gratifying than those under monarchies.¹ It is of these honors I shall endeavor to speak.

To the Children of Jason. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Letter 6: To the Children of Jason (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Ἐπιστολαὶ ςʹ Τοῖς Ἰάσονος παισίν Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 11 focus

[11] ἴσως ἂν οὖν τις τῶν εἰκῇ ζῆν προῃρημένων τοὺς μὲν τοιούτους λογισμοὺς διασύρειν ἐπιχειρήσειεν, ἀξιώσειε δ’ ἂν ἤδη με συμβουλεύειν περὶ τῶν προειρημένων. ἔστιν οὖν οὐκ ὀκνητέον ἀποφήνασθαι περὶ αὐτῶν ἃ τυγχάνω γιγνώσκων. ἐμοὶ γὰρ αἱρετώτερος ὁ βίος εἶναι δοκεῖ καὶ βελτίων ὁ τῶν ἰδιωτευόντων ἢ τῶν τυραννούντων, καὶ τὰς τιμὰς ἡδίους ἡγοῦμαι τὰς ἐν ταῖς πολιτείαις ἢ τὰς ἐν ταῖς μοναρχίαις· καὶ περὶ τούτων λέγειν ἐπιχειρήσω.

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To the Children of Jason

1. Isocrates was a firm believer in democracy, but often complains that the Athens of his later life has grievous faults; see General lntro., Vol. I, p. xxxviii.

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