Note 20 — Chapter XXXIII · MENEXENUS.
Reading edition
Plat. Menex. pp. 244-245. 244 E: εἴ τις βούλοιτο τῆς πόλεως κατηγορῆσαι δικαίως, τοῦτ’ ἂν μόνον λέγων ὀρθῶς ἂν κατηγοροίη, ὡς ἀεὶ λίαν φιλοικτίρμων ἐστί, καὶ τοῦ ἥττονος θεραπίς. Isokrates also, in the Oratio Panegyrica (Or. iv.), dwells upon this point, as well as on the pronounced hatred towards βάρβαροι, as standing features in the Athenian character (sect. 59-184). The points touched upon in reference to Athens by Isokrates are in the main the same as those brought out by Plato in the Menexenus, only that Isokrates makes them subservient to a special purpose, that of bringing about an expedition against Persia under the joint headship of Sparta and Athens.