Isocrates, To Archidamus, ed. Larue Van Hook, 9

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[9] These renegades, if we had any sense, we should not be permitting to come together into bands or, led by any chance leaders, to form armed contingents, composed of roving forces more numerous and powerful than are the troops of our own citizen forces. These armies do damage to only a small part of the domain of the king of Persia, but every Hellenic city they enter they utterly destroy, killing some, driving others into exile, and robbing still others of their possessions¹;

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

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Letter 9: To Archidamus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Ἐπιστολαὶ θʹ Ἀρχιδάμῳ Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 9 focus

[9] εἰ νοῦν εἴχομεν, οὐκ ἂν περιεωρῶμεν ἀθροιζομένους οὐδ’ ὑπὸ τῶν τυχόντων στρατηγουμένους, οὐδὲ μείζους καὶ κρείττους συντάξεις στρατοπέδων γιγνομένας ἐκ τῶν πλανωμένων ἢ τῶν πολιτευομένων· οἳ τῆς μὲν βασιλέως χώρας μικρὸν μέρος λυμαίνονται, τὰς δὲ πόλεις τὰς Ἑλληνίδας, εἰς ἣν ἂν εἰσέλθωσιν, ἀναστάτους ποιοῦσι, τοὺς μὲν ἀποκτείνοντες, τοὺς δὲ φυγαδεύοντες,

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To Archidamus

1. See Introd. to Isoc. 4 , Vol. I, p. 117; cf. Isoc. 4.167-168 .

Isocrates To Archidamus 9

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