Isocrates, Panegyricus, section 152

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

speech : section

[152] So it is that those of the Persians who come down to the sea, whom they term satraps,¹ do not dishonor the training which they receive at home, but cling steadfastly to the same habits: they are faithless to their friends and cowardly to their foes; their lives are divided between servility on the one hand and arrogance on the other; they treat their allies with contempt and pay court to their enemies.

1 Viceroys of the king—provincial governors.

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.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Isocrates, Panegyricus
George Norlin, Ed.

This text is part of:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

Isocrates, Panegyricus George Norlin, Ed.

This text is part of:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

Isocrates, Panegyricus
George Norlin, Ed.