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Isocrates, Panegyricus (ed. George Norlin), section 119 (search)
And that this state of affairs was due to the valor of our ancestors has been clearly shown in the fortunes of our city: for the very moment when we were deprived of our dominion marked the beginning of a dominionFor this play of words— a)rxh/, “beginning,” and arxh/, “dominion”—cf. Isoc. 3.28, Isoc. 8.101, Isoc. 5.61. of ills for the Hellenes. In fact, after the disaster which befell us in the Hellespont,Battle of Aegospotami 405 B.C. when our rivals took our place as leaders, the barbarians won a naval victory,At the battle of Cnidus, but with the help of Conon. became rulers of the sea, occupied most of the islands,See Xen. Hell. 4.8.7. made a landing in Laconia, took Cythera by storm, and sailed around the whole Peloponnesus, inflicting damage as
Isocrates, Helen (ed. George Norlin), section 63 (search)
And I can produce the city of the Spartans, which preserves with especial care its ancient traditions, as witness for the fact; for even to the present day at TherapneJust outside Sparta were the tombs of Menelaus and Helen （see Pausanias iii. 19.9） and their sanctuary （Herodotus vi. 61）. in Laconia the people offer holy and traditional sacrifices to them both, not as to heroes, but as t
Isocrates, Panathenaicus (ed. George Norlin), section 178 (search)
m they had committed the greatest wrongs and yet govern the state in security; they themselves did nothing of the sort, but instead set up amongst their own class the only kind of equality and democracyThose who enjoyed citizenship in Sparta are called by Aristotle （Aristot. Pol. 8.7） o(/moioi, “equals.” Cf. Isoc. 7.61. which is possible if men are to be at all times in complete accord, while reducing the mass of the people to the condition of Perioeci,In historical times the population of Laconia, the valley of the Eurotas river, was made up of the Spartans, who lived in the city of Lacedaemon （Sparta seems to have been a later name）; the Helots, serfs bound to the soil, who worked the estates owned by the Spartans, paying a high rental, sometimes half the crop; and the Perioeci, free-holders of land, who were scattered in villages throughout theEurotas Valley—“the land of a hundred towns,” possessing apparently their own local governments, but under the general control a