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[31] The confusion attendant upon such occasions, the fears of his followers, the exhortations of their leader—why need I take the time to describe¹? When the supporters of the tyrant opposed him and the citizens generally were observers （for they held their peace because they feared either the authority of the one party or the valor of the other）,

1 Cf. Isoc. 4.97 for a similar passage in reference to the sea-fight at Salamis. In Isoc. 5.93-94 Isocrates justifies such “autoplagiarism.”

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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