Divine will · Atlas

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To PhilipClassical · Greek

The providential force said to prompt Isocrates' speech, aid Philip's past successes, and lead him toward the Asian campaign.

It were therefore shameful, now that fortune nobly leads the way, to lag behind and refuse to follow whither she desires to lead you forward.

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For example, it may be that even now the gods have assigned to me the task of speech while to you they allot the task of action, considering that you will be the best master in that province, while in the field of speech I might prove least irksome to my hearers.

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but if it is up to the standard of my former publications, I would have you believe that it was not my old age that conceived it but the divine will that prompted it, not out of solicitude for me, but because of its concern for Hellas, and because of its desire to deliver her out of her present distress and to crown you with a glory far greater than you now possess.

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Oedipus at ColonusClassical · Greek

Divine will is the supernatural order that explains Oedipus' death, limits grief, and sanctions Theseus' guardianship.

To what last hope does the divinity now drive us?

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Best of daughters, you both must bear the will of the gods.

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The divinity heard me say these things, as did the all-seeing Oath of Zeus.

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