Literary Record Details

Author: ISOCRATES Orat.

Opus: Panathenaicus (orat. 12)
Reference: Isocr.12.177

Period: Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: forensic
Object:
Gender: m
Context: land

Greek Text: ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Δωριέων οἱ στρατεύσαντες εἰς Πελοπόννησον τρίχα διείλοντο τάς τε πόλεις καὶ τὰς χώρας ἃς ἀφείλοντο τοὺς δικαίως κεκτημένους, οἱ μὲν Ἄργος λαχόντες καὶ Μεσσήνην παραπλησίως διῴκουν τὰ σφέτερ᾽ αὐτῶν τοῖς ἄλλοις Ἕλλησι

English Text: When, then, the Dorians who invaded the Peloponnesus divided into three parts both the cities and the lands which they had taken from their rightful owners, those of them who received Argos and Messene as their portions ordered their affairs very much as did the Hellenes in general.