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Setting the six real Forensic Speeches apart, the other writings of Isokrates ought to be classified, not according to accident of form, but by subject-matter. They may be considered as I. Scholastic, II. Political. The whole list will then stand thus:—
A. SCHOLASTIC WRITINGS.
I.
Hortatory Letters or Essays.
To Demonikos. [Or. I.]
To Nikokles. [Or. II.]
Nikokles. [Or. III.]
II.
Displays.
Busiris. [Or. XI.]
Encomium on Helen. [Or. X.]
Evagoras. [Or. IX.]
Panathenaikos. [Or. XII.]
III.
Essays on Education.
Against the Sophists. [Or. XIII.]
Antidosis. [Or. XV.]
B. POLITICAL WRITINGS.
I.
On the relations of Greece with Persia.
Panegyrikos. [Or. IV.]
Philippos. [Or. V.]
II.
On the internal affairs of Greece.
Plataikos. [Or. XIV.]
On the Peace. [Or. VIII.]
Archidamos. [Or. VI.]
Areopagitikos. [Or. VII.]
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C. FORENSIC SPEECHES.
I.
Action for Assault (
δίκη αἰκίας).
Against Lochites. [Or. XX.]
II.
Claim to an Inheritance (
ἐπιδικασία).
Aeginetikos. [Or. XIX.]
III.
Action to recover a Deposit (
δίκη παρακαταθήκης).
Against Euthynus. [Or. XXI.]
Trapezitikos. [Or. XVII.]
IV.
Action for Damage (
δίκη βλάβης).
On the Yoke of Horses. [Or. XVI.]
V.
Special Plea (
παραγραφή).
Against Kallimachos. [Or. XVIII.]
D. LETTERS.—FRAGMENTS.
The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. 1876.
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