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.

ἔτι δʼ εἰ καὶ μηδὲν αὐτὸν ἐκώλυεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐξῆν καὶ ἐβούλετο συκοφαντεῖν, ὡς οὐκ ἂν ἐπʼ Εὐθύνουν ἦλθε ῥᾴδιον γνῶναι. οἱ γὰρ τοιαῦτα πράττειν ἐπιθυμοῦντες οὐκ ἀπὸ τῶν φίλων ἄρχονται ἀλλὰ μετὰ τούτων ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἔρχονται, καὶ τούτοις ἐγκαλοῦσιν, οὓς ἂν μήτʼ αἰσχύνωνται μήτε δεδίωσι, καὶ οὓς ἂν ὁρῶσι πλουσίους μέν, ἐρήμους δὲ καὶ ἀδυνάτους πράττειν.