Literary Record Details

Author: ISOCRATES Orat.

Opus: Areopagiticus (orat. 7)
Reference: Isocr.7.54

Period: Classical

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

Greek Text: ὅταν ἴδῃ πολλοὺς τῶν πολιτῶν αὐτοὺς μὲν περὶ τῶν ἀναγκαίων, εἴθ᾽ ἕξουσιν εἴτε μή, πρὸ τῶν δικαστηρίων κληρουμένους

English Text: we see many of our fellow-citizens drawing lots in front of the law-courts to determine whether they themselves shall have the necessaries of life

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Kleros 668, Isocr.7.54
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