Isocrates, Antidosis
George Norlin, Ed.

[82] for, at the time when the human race was beginning to come into existence and to settle together in cities,¹ it was natural that their searching should have been for much the same thing; but today, on the other hand, when we have advanced to the point where the discourses which have been spoken and the laws which have been laid down are innumerable, and where we single out the oldest among laws and the newest among discourses for our praise, these tasks no longer call for the same understanding;