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2 especially if they wish to have the advantage over their adversaries.Isocrates despised this kind of writing. See General Introduction. No, I left all these to others and devoted my own efforts to giving advice on the true interests of Athens and of the rest of the Hellenes,See General Introduction. writing in a style rich in many telling points, in contrasted and balanced phrases not a few,The Gorgian figures, antithesis and parisosis, which Dionysius of Halicarnassus complained (Dion. Hal. Isoc. 14) were excessively used in the Isoc. 4.71-81. and in the other figures of speech which give brilliance to oratorySee General Introduction. and compel the approbation and applause of the audience.

3 Now, however, I have completely given up these devices of rhetoric.An exaggeration. They abound in this discourse, but his earlier efforts were more ornate. Cf. Isoc. 5.27-28, and Isoc. 15.195. For I do not think it is becoming to the ninety-four years which I have lived nor, in general, to men whose hair has at length turned to greyAn echo of Plat. Apol. 17. to continue to speak in this fashion, but rather in the manner which every man, should he so desire, would hope to command, although no man can easily attain it without hard work and close application.

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