§4.1#2ἀποσχόμενον, οἱ δὲ τεταρταῖον ἅμα ταῖς ταφαῖς τῶν ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ πεσόντων.
died, but others say on the fourth day, at the same time as the funerals of those who fell at Chaeronea.
συνέγραψε δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ παῖς Ἀφαρεὺς λόγους.
His adopted son Aphareus also composed speeches.
ἐτάφη δὲ μετὰ τῆς συγγενείας πλησίον Κυνοσάργους ἐπὶ τοῦ λόφου ἐν ἀριστερᾷ αὐτός τε καὶ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ Θεόδωρος καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ· ταύτης τʼ ἀδελφὴ τηθὶς τοῦ ῥήτορος Ἀνακὼ καὶ ὁ ποιητὸς υἱὸς Ἀφαρεὺς καὶ ὁ ἀνεψιὸς αὐτοῦ Σωκράτης, μητρὸς Ἰσοκράτους ἀδελφῆς Ἀνακοῦς υἱὸς ὤν, ὃ τʼ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ὁμώνυμος τοῦ πατρὸς Θεόδωρος καὶ οἱ υἱωνοὶ αὐτοῦ, τοῦ ποιηθέντος αὐτῷ παιδὸς Ἀφαρεὺς. Ἀφαρεὺς. καὶ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ Θεόδωρος; ἥ τε γυνὴ Πλαθάνη, μήτηρ δὲ τοῦ ποιητοῦ Ἀφαρέως.
He was buried with his family near Cynosarges, on the hill on the left, both he himself and his father Theodorus and his mother; and her sister, Anaco, the aunt of the orator, and his poet son Aphareus, and his nephew Socrates, who was the son of Anaco, the sister of Isocrates' mother, and his brother Theodorus, namesake of his father, and his grandsons, the sons of his adopted son Aphareus, namely Aphareus and his father (brother) Theodorus; and his wife Platane, the mother of the poet Aphareus.
ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν τούτων τράπεζαι ἐπῆσαν ἕξ, αἳ νῦν οὐ σῴζονται· αὐτῷ δʼ Ἰσοκράτει ἐπὶ τοῦ μνήματος ἐπῆν κίων τριάκοντα πηχῶν, ἐφʼ οὗ σειρὴν πηχῶν ἑπτὰ συμβολικῶς, ὃς νῦν οὐ σῴζεται.
Over these graves, then, were six flat tombstones, which do not survive now; and upon the tomb of Isocrates himself there was a column of thirty cubits, upon which was a siren of seven cubits, symbolically, which does not survive now.
ἦν δὲ καὶ αὐτοῦ τράπεζα πλησίον ἔχουσα ποιητάς τε καὶ τοὺς διδασκάλους αὐτοῦ, ἐν οἷς καὶ Γοργίαν εἰς σφαῖραν ἀστρολογικὴν βλέποντα αὐτόν τε τὸν Ἰσοκράτην παρεστῶτα.
There was also near it a monument of himself depicting poets and his teachers, among whom was Gorgias looking at an astrological sphere, and Isocrates himself standing by.
ἀνάκειται δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι εἰκὼν χαλκῆ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ προστῴου ὑπὸ Τιμοθέου τοῦ Κόνωνος, καὶ ἐπιγέγραπται
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Τιμόθεος φιλίας τε χάριν ξύνεσίν τε προτιμῶν
Ἰσοκράτους εἰκὼ τήνδʼ ἀνέθηκε θεαῖς· "
Λεωχάρους ἔργον, φέρονται δʼ αὐτοῦ λόγοι ἑξήκοντα, ὧν εἰσι γνήσιοι κατὰ μὲν Διονύσιον εἰκοσιπέντε κατὰ δὲ Καικίλιον εἰκοσιοκτώ, οἱ δʼ ἄλλοι κατεψευσμένοι, εἶχε δʼ ἀλλοτρίως πρὸς ἐπίδειξιν, ὡς ἀφικομένων ποτὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν τριῶν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκρόασιν τοὺς μὲν δύο κατασχεῖν τὸν δὲ τρίτον ἀπολῦσαι, φάμενος εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἥξειν νῦν γὰρ αὐτῷ τὸ θέατρον εἶναι ἐν ἀκροατηρίῳ.
A bronze statue of him is also dedicated at Eleusis in front of the portico by Timotheus the son of Conon, and it is inscribed: "Timotheus, out of friendship and honoring the intelligence of Isocrates, dedicated this image to the Goddesses." This was the work of Leochares. Sixty speeches are circulated under his name, of which twenty-five are genuine according to Dionysius, and twenty-eight according to Caecilius, while the others are spurious. He was averse to public display, so that once when three people came to hear him, he kept two but dismissed the third, saying that he should come on the next day, for now his audience was complete in his lecture-room.
εἰώθει δὲ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς γνωρίμους αὑτοῦ λέγειν, ὡς αὐτὸς μὲν δέκα μνῶν διδάσκοι, τῷ δʼ αὐτὸν διδάξαντι τόλμαν καὶ εὐφωνίαν δώσειν δεκακισχιλίας.
And he was accustomed to say to his acquaintances that he himself taught for ten minae, but to anyone who could teach him confidence and a strong voice, he would give ten thousand drachmas.
καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἐρόμενον διὰ τί οὐκ ὢν αὐτὸς ἱκανὸς ἄλλους ποιεῖ, εἶπεν ὅτι καὶ αἱ ἀκόναι αὐταὶ μὲν τέμνειν οὐ δύνανται τὸν δὲ σίδηρον τμητικὸν ποιοῦσιν.
And to someone who asked why, when he himself was not capable, he made others so, he said that whetstones themselves cannot cut, but they make iron sharp for cutting.
εἰσὶ δʼ οἳ καὶ τέχνας αὐτὸν λέγουσι συγγεγραφέναι, οἱ δʼ οὐ μεθόδῳ ἀλλʼ ἀσκήσει χρήσασθαι.
There are some who say he also wrote manuals on the art, while others say he did not use a systematic method but rather practical training.
πολίτην δʼ οὐδέποτʼ εἰσέπραξε μισθόν.
But he never charged a fellow citizen a fee.
προσέταττε δὲ τοῖς γνωρίμοις εἰς τὰς, ἐκκλησίας ἀπαντῶσιν ἀναφέρειν αὐτῷ τὰ εἰρημένα.
And he instructed his pupils who attended the assemblies to report to him what had been said.
ἐλυπήθη δὲ καὶ οὐ μετρίως ἐπὶ τῷ Σωκράτους θανάτῳ καὶ μελανειμονῶν τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ προῆλθε.
And he grieved exceedingly at the death of Socrates, and went out the next day wearing black.
πάλιν δʼ ἐρομένου τινὸς αὐτὸν τί ῥητορική, εἶπε
τὰ μὲν μικρὰ μεγάλα τὰ δὲ μεγάλα μικρὰ ποιεῖν. ἑστιώμενος δέ ποτε παρὰ Νικοκρέοντι τῷ Κύπρου τυράννῳ, προτρεπομένων αὐτὸν τῶν παρόντων διαλεχθῆναι, ἔφη
οἷς μὲν ἐγὼ δεινὸς οὐχ ὁ νῦν καιρός, οἷς δʼ ὁ νῦν καιρὸς οὐκ ἐγὼ δεινός. Σοφοκλέα δὲ τὸν τραγικὸν θεασάμενος ἑπόμενον ἐρωτικῶς παιδί, εἶπεν
οὐ μόνον δεῖ, Σοφόκλεις, τὰς χεῖρας ἔχειν παρʼ αὑτῷ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. τοῦ δὲ Κυμαίου Ἐφόρου ἀπράκτου τῆς σχολῆς ἐξελθόντος καὶ πάλιν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς Δημοφίλου πεμφθέντος; ἐπὶ δευτέρῳ μισθῷ, παίζων Δίφορον αὐτὸν ἐκάλει· ἐσπούδασε μέντοι ἱκανῶς περὶ τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν τῆς χρείας αὐτὸς ὑπεθήκατο.
When someone asked him again what rhetoric is, he said: "To make small things great, and great things small." Once when he was being entertained by Nicocreon, the tyrant of Cyprus, and those present urged him to speak, he said: "In things where I am skilled, now is not the time; but in things for which now is the time, I am not skilled." Seeing Sophocles the tragic poet passionately pursuing a boy, he said: "Sophocles, one must keep not only one's hands to oneself, but also one's eyes." And when Ephorus of Cyme left the school without having accomplished anything, and was sent back again by his father Demophilus with a second fee, Isocrates jokingly called him "Diphoros." Yet he took great pains with the man, and himself suggested the subject of his history.
ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἀφροδίσια καταφερής, ὡς ὑποπάστῳ παρειλκυσμένῳ ἐν τῇ κοίτῃ χρῆσθαι, κρόκῳ διάβροχον ἔχοντα τὸ προσκεφάλαιον.
He was also prone to sexual pleasures, so that he used a thin under-blanket drawn over him in bed, and had his pillow soaked with saffron.
καὶ νέον μὲν ὄντα μὴ γῆμαι, γηράσαντα δʼ ἑταίρᾳ συνεῖναι ὄνομα ἦν Λαγίσκη, ἐξ ἧς ἔσχε θυγάτριον ὃ γενόμενον ἐτῶν δώδεκα πρὸ γάμων ἐτελεύτησεν.
And in his youth he did not marry, but in his old age he lived with a courtesan whose name was Lagiske, from whom he had a daughter who died at the age of twelve before marriage.
ἔπειτα Πλαθάνην τὴν Ἱππίου τοῦ ῥήτορος γυναῖκα ἠγάγετο τρεῖς παῖδας ἔχουσαν, ὧν τὸν Ἀφαρέα ὡς προείρηται ἐποιήσατο, ὃς καὶ εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ χαλκῆν ἀνέθηκε πρὸς τῷ Ὀλυμπιείῳ ἐπὶ κίονος καὶ ἐπέγραψεν
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Ἰσοκράτους Ἀφαρεὺς πατρὸς εἰκόνα τήνδʼ ἀνέθηκε
Ζηνί, θεούς τε σέβων καὶ γονέων ἀρετήν. "
λέγεται δὲ καὶ κελητίσαι ἔτι παῖς ὤν· ἀνάκειται γὰρ ἐν ἀκροπόλει χαλκοῦς ἐν τῇ σφαιρίστρᾳ τῶν Ἀρρηφόρων κελητίζων ἔτι παῖς ὤν, ὡς εἶπόν τινες.
Then he married Platane, the wife of Hippias the rhetorician, who had three children, of whom he adopted Aphareus, as was said before, who also set up a bronze statue of him on a column near the Olympieum and inscribed: "Aphareus dedicated this image of his father Isocrates to Zeus, both out of reverence for the gods and honoring the virtue of his parents." And he is also said to have ridden a horse when he was still a boy; for a bronze statue of him riding a horse when he was still a boy is dedicated on the Acropolis in the ball-court of the Arrephoroi, as some have said.
δύο δʼ ἐν ἅπαντι τῷ βίῳ συνέστησαν αὐτῷ ἀγῶνες πρότερος μὲν εἰς ἀντίδοσιν προκαλεσαμένου αὐτὸν Μεγακλείδου, πρὸς ὃν οὐκ ἀπήντησε διὰ νόσον, τὸν δʼ υἱὸν πέμψας Ἀφαρέα ἐνίκησε· δεύτερος δὲ Λυσιμάχου αὐτὸν προκαλεσαμένου περὶ τριηραρχίας εἰς ἀντίδοσιν ἡττηθεὶς δὲ τὴν τριηραρχίαν ὑπέστη.
And during his entire life two lawsuits arose for him: the first when Megacleides challenged him to an exchange of property, which lawsuit he did not attend because of illness, but having sent his son Aphareus, he won; the second when Lysimachus challenged him to an exchange of property concerning a trierarchy, and having been defeated, he undertook the trierarchy.
ἦν δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ γραπτὴ εἰκὼν ἐν τῷ Πομπείῳ.
There was also a painted portrait of him in the Pompeium.
ὁ δʼ Ἀφαρεὺς συνέγραψε μὲν λόγους οὐ πολλοὺς δέ, δικανικούς τε καὶ συμβουλευτικούς· ἐποίησε δὲ καὶ τραγῳδίας περὶ ἑπτὰ καὶ τριάκοντα, ὧν ἀντιλέγονται δύο.
And Aphareus composed speeches, though not many, both court speeches and advisory ones; and he also wrote about thirty-seven tragedies, of which two are disputed.
ἀρξάμενος δʼ ἀπὸ Λυσιστράτου διδάσκειν ἄχρι Σωσιγένους ἐν ἔτεσιν εἰκοσιοκτὼ διδασκαλίας ἀστικὰς καθῆκεν ἓξ καὶ δὶς ἐνίκησε διὰ Διονυσίου, καθεὶς καὶ διʼ ἑτέρων ἑτέρας δύο Ληναϊκάς.
Having begun to produce plays from the archonship of Lysistratus until that of Sosigenes, in the course of twenty-eight years, he produced six urban theatrical productions and won twice through Dionysius, and produced two others at the Lenaea through other people.
τῆς δὲ μητρὸς αὐτῶν Ἰσοκράτους καὶ Θεοδώρου καὶ τῆς ταύτης ἀδελφῆς Ἀνακοῦς εἰκόνες ἀνέκειντο ἐν ἀκροπόλει· ὧν ἡ τῆς μητρὸς παρὰ τὴν Ὑγίειαν νῦν κεῖται μετεπιγεγραμμένη, ἡ δʼ Ἀνακοῦς οὐ σῴζεται.
And statues of their mother—namely of Isocrates and Theodorus—and of her sister Anaco were dedicated on the Acropolis; of which that of the mother now stands near the statue of Hygieia with its inscription altered, while that of Anaco does not survive.
ἔσχε δὲ δύο υἱούς, Ἀλέξανδρον μὲν ἐκ Κοινοῦς Σωσικλέα δʼ ἐκ Λυσίου.
And he had two sons: Alexander by Coenis, and Sosicles by Lysias.