Against Euthynus
Isocrates
Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by Larue Van Hook, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1945-1968.
καὶ μὴ δυνάμενον τὰ αὑτοῦ σῴζειν τοῖς ἀλλοτρίοις ἐπιβουλεύειν, καὶ πρὸς τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν ἐχθροῖς ἑτέρους διαφόρους ποιεῖσθαι, καὶ τούτοις ἀδίκως ἐγκαλεῖν παρʼ ὧν οὐδʼ ὁμολογούντων ἀποστερεῖν οἷός τʼ ἂν ἦν δίκην λαβεῖν, καὶ τότε πλέον ἔχειν ζητεῖν, ὅτε οὐδὲ ἴσον ἐξῆν αὐτῷ, καὶ ὅτε ἃ οὐκ ἔλαβεν ἀποτίνειν ἠναγκάζετο, τότε καὶ ἃ μὴ συνέβαλεν ἐλπίζειν πράξασθαι;