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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 762 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 376 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 356 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 296 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 228 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Demosthenes, Exordia (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 178 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 | 158 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Plato to Laodamas wishes well-doing.I wrote to you before that in view of all that you say it is of great importance that you yourself should come to Athens. But since you say that this is impossible, the second best course would have been that I, if possible, or Socrates should go to you, as in fact you said in your letter. At present, however, Socrates
is laid up with an attack of strangury; while if I were to go there, it would be humiliating if I failed to succeed in the task for which you are inviting me. But I myself have no great hopes of success (as to my reasons for this, another long letter would be required to explain them in full), and moreover, because of my age, I am not physically fit to go wandering about and to run such risks as one encounters both by sea and land; and at present there is nothing but danger for travellers everywhere.Probably an allusion to the prevalence of pirates (such as Alexander of Pherae) in the Aegean Sea.
I am able, however, to give y