Isocrates, Antidosis, section 76

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Nicocles or the Cyprians

Against the Sophists

Extract from the Panegyricus

Extracts from oration On the Peace

Extract from discourse To Nicocles

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Concerning the Team of Horses

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[76] But I want to say just a word in behalf of each of them and so make it still more manifest that what I then said and what I now say about them is true.

First of all, tell me what eloquence could be more righteous or more just than one which praises our ancestors in a manner worthy of their excellence and of their achievements?

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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