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τῶν ἀγαθῶν: partitive genitive, ‘among good qualities.’ τοῖς τηλικούτοις: τηλικοῦτος, lit. ‘of such a size’ (cp. § 19), often means ‘of that age’, so here ‘those of his own age’, i. e. boys; it can equally well mean ‘old men’, e.g. Panath. 88 τοῖς τηλικούτοις. τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν: genitive after the superlative idea contained in ἐκρατίστευσεν . ἡλικιώτης, ‘of a certain time of life,’ here ‘contemporaries’. ἡλικία means ‘any time of life’, especially ‘prime of life’, with reference to the age at which a man can serve as a soldier; but in § 71 it refers to ‘old age’, in N. C. 44, 45 to ‘youth’.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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