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[3] next, the laws by which in each case their civic life is governed; furthermore, freedom of speech and the privilege which is openly granted to friends to rebuke and to enemies to attack each other's faults; besides, a number of the poets of earlier times¹ have left precepts which direct them how to live; so that, from all these influences, they may reasonably be expected to become better men.

1 Especially the “gnomic” poets mentioned in 43.

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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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 14
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, DEPENDENT SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSES (2574-2635）
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter II
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
- LSJ, ἐπιτίθημι
- LSJ, φα^νερός
- LSJ, ὑποθήκ-η

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