Isocrates, To Demonicus, section 14

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Against the Sophists

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Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.¹

Train your body, not by the exercises which conduce to strength, but by those which conduce to health. In this you will succeed if you cease your exertions while you still have energy to exert yourself.

1 Isocrates anticipates the golden rule.Cf. Isoc. 3.61; Isoc. 2.24, 38; Isoc. 4.81.

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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Cross-references to this page (3):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE CASES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.3
- Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Overview of Greek Syntax, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns
Cross-references in notes to this page (3):
- Isocrates, To Demonicus, Isoc. 1 17
- Isocrates, To Nicocles, Isoc. 2 24
- Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, Isoc. 3 61
Cross-references in notes from this page (3):
- Isocrates, To Nicocles, 24
- Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 61
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, 81
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (1):
- LSJ, τοιοῦτος