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[129] Well, if I were trying to present this matter to any others before having broached it to my own country, which has thrice¹ freed Hellas—twice from the barbarians and once from the Lacedaemonian yoke—I should confess my error. In truth, however, it will be found that I turned to Athens first of all and endeavored to win her over to this cause with all the earnestness of which my nature is capable,² but when I perceived that she cared less for what I said than for the ravings of the platform orators,³ I gave her up, although I did not abandon my efforts.

1 Twice from the barbarians—at Marathon and Salamis; once from the Spartans at the battle of Cnidus, where the navy under Conon put an end to the Spartan hegemony.

2 In the Panegyricus.

3 See General Introd. p. xxxviii.

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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