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Πανηγυρικός Isocrates
189 bearing ever in mind that it does not become men who promise great things to waste their time on little things,This very complaint he makes of his rival sophists. See Isoc. 13.1, 10. nor yet to make the kind of speeches which will improve no whit the lives of those whom they convince, but rather the kind which, if carried out in action, will both deliver the authors themselves from their present distressNot too urbanely he dwells upon the poverty of his rivals. Cf. Isoc. 13.4, 7. and win for them the credit of bringing to pass great blessings for the rest of the world.The kind of discourse to which Isocrates himself devoted his serious efforts. See Isoc. 12.11 and General Introd. p. xxiv.
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