Isocrates, To Philip, II, ed. Larue Van Hook, 6

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[6] I am grateful to my old age for this reason alone, because it has prolonged my life to this moment, so that the dreams of my youth, which I attempted to commit to writing both in my Panegyricus¹ and in the discourse which was sent to you, I am now seeing in part already coming to fulfillment through your achievements and in part I have hopes of their future realization.²

To Philip, II. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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

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Ἐπιστολαὶ γʹ Φιλίππῳ β΄ Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 6 focus

[6] χάριν δ’ ἔχω τῷ γήρᾳ ταύτην μόνην, ὅτι προήγαγεν εἰς τοῦτό μου τὸν βίον, ὥσθ’ ἃ νέος ὢν διενοούμην καὶ γράφειν ἐπεχείρουν ἔν τε τῷ πανηγυρικῷ λόγῳ καὶ τῷ πρὸς σὲ πεμφθέντι, ταῦτα νῦν τὰ μὲν ἤδη γιγνόμενα διὰ τῶν σῶν ἐφορῶ πράξεων, τὰ δ’ ἐλπίζω γενήσεσθαι.

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To Philip, II

1. The Panegyricus was published in 380 B.C. Isocrates was then 56 years of age, but had begun is composition many years before.

2. See General Introd., Vol. I, p. x.

Isocrates To Philip, II 6

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