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When he was admitted to citizenship, he showed himself not inferior to those whom I have mentioned, nor did he think it fitting that he should lead a life of ease, pluming himself upon the brave deeds of his ancestors; on the contrary, from the beginning he was so fired with ambition that he thought that even their great deeds should be held in remembrance through his own. And first of all, when Phormio1 led a thousand of the flower of Athenian soldiers to Thrace,2 my father served with this expedition, and so distinguished himself in the perilous actions of the campaign that he was crowned and received a full suit of armour from his general.
1 A famous Athenian general.
2 Expedition to recover the city of Potidaea in 439 B.C. Thucydides （Thuc. 1.64.2） speaks of 1600 hoplites. Cf. Plat. Sym. 220 for the award of valor given to Alcibiades.
Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.
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