[188] Isocrates allows elisions of certain short vowels, but he is more sparing than most poets in the use of it. In the epideictic speeches the commonest elision is of enclitics or semi-enclitics (τε, δέ, etc.) and of personal pronouns. Crasis, except of καὶ ἄν is rare. In the forensic speeches (his early work) elision is much less restricted. [189] Maxim. Planud. _ad Hermog._, v. 469. [190] Vol. ii. p. 144. [191] _Rhet._, Book III. 8. 4. [192] _Ibid._ [193] θαυμάζειν καὶ ζηλοῦν, ἐπαινεῖν καὶ τιμᾶν, etc. [194] _E.g._ _Paneg._ § 5, ὅταν ἢ τὰ πράγματα λάβῃ τέλος ... ἢ τὸν λόγον ἴδῃ τις ἔχοντα πέρας, where τέλος and πέρας, two words for end or completion, are not really distinguishable, or, at any rate, the distinction is very slight. So in _Evagoras_, § 11, εὐλογεῖν and ἐγκωμιάζειν are used antithetically (to praise—to eulogise). [195] _E.g._ _Evagoras_, § 10, αὐταῖς ταῖς εὐρυθμίαις καὶ ταῖς συμμετρίαις ψυχαγωγοῦσι τοὺς ἀκούοντας. Elsewhere we find μετριότητες, λαμπρότητες, αὐθάδειαι, ἀργίαι, etc. [196] Aristoph., _Clouds_, _passim_. [197] Cf. Isocrates’ reference to this passage in _Antid._, § 193. [198] _Hel._ (Or. x.), § 1, οἱ δὲ διεξιόντες ὡς ἀνδρία καὶ σοφία καὶ δικαιοσύνη ταὐτόν ἐστι. [199] §§ 9 _sqq._ [200] _Antid._, §§ 187-189. [201] §§ 19 _sqq._ [202] _Rhet._, i. 1. 10. [203] τὸ τολμᾶν, § 192. [204] _Vide supra_, p. 137. [205] _Or_ astrology? [206] _Antid._, Summary of §§ 181-303. [207] _Antid._, § 11, ἰδέαι. [208] _Ep._ 1, § 87. This letter is referred to in _Philippus_, § 81; the text of the letter remaining to us is incomplete. [209] _Philippus_, 346 B.C. [210] _Ibid._ (Or. v.), §§ 14-17. [211] Isocrates is said to have spent ten years over the composition of the _Panegyricus_; it was probably published in 380 B.C. [212] _I.e._ the victory of the 10,000 at Cunaxa. [213] The truth of this maxim is illustrated by our records of the _impromptu_ performances of Demosthenes, _vide infra_, p. 190. [214] _de Isaeo_, ch. xix., παχύτερον ὄντα τὴν λέξιν καὶ κοινότερον. [215] _Rhet._, iii. 3. 3. [216] Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 3. 4. [217] _Busiris_, §§ 5-6. He endeavoured to make Socrates responsible for the misdeeds of Alcibiades. [218] _de Isaeo_, ch. xx. [219] Dion., _de Isocrate_, ch. xviii.: τὴν ἀπολογίαν τὴν πάνυ θαυμαστὴν ἐν ταῖς πρὸς Ἀριστοτέλη ἀντιγραφαῖς ἐποιήσατο. [220] See _Timarchus_, § 49, where Aeschines states, in 346 B.C., that he is rather over forty-five years old. [221] Aesch., _de Leg._, § 147. Dem. (_de Cor._, 129 _sqq._) asserts that he was originally a slave named Tromes (_Coward_), but changed his name to Atrometus (_Dauntless_). [222] Dem., _de Cor._, §§ 258-259. See further _infra_, p. 249. [223] However, his elder brother, Philocrates, was elected general three times in succession, and his younger brother, Aphobetus, was sent as an ambassador to the Great King.—Aesch., _de Leg._, § 149. [224] _de Cor._, § 262, _vide infra_, p. 249. [225] _de Leg._, § 79; _vide infra_, p. 168.