Isocrates, To Philip, section 33

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[33] the Lacedaemonians have conferred upon his descendants the kingship and the power of command¹ for all time; and as for our city, we are informed by those whom we credit in matters of ancient history that she aided Heracles to win his immortality²（in what way you can easily learn at another time; it would be unseasonable for me to relate it now）, and that she aided his children to preserve their lives.³

1 See Isoc. 4.62 and note.

2 According to Dio. Sic. 4.39 the Athenians were the first to offer sacrifices to Heracles as a god.

3 For this statement and the following paragraph see Isoc. 4.56-62.

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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