Isocrates, Archidamus, section 28

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[28] Were they restoring those who are truly Messenians, they would still be acting unjustly, but at least they would have a more plausible pretext for wronging us; but as the case stands, it is the Helots whom they are trying to settle on our frontier,¹ so that the worst fate which threatens us is not that we shall be robbed of our land contrary to justice, but that we shall see our slaves made masters of it.

1 See introduction.

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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Cross-references to this page (3):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Qualification of the Subject
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 15.66
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
- LSJ, εὔλογος
- LSJ, παρακατ-οικίζω
- LSJ, στερέω

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