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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: in their books,[10] I unfold and peruse in common with my friends. If
our eye light upon any good thing we cull it eagerly, and regard it as
great gain if we may but grow in friendship with one another.
[7] Add "and a sign of modesty," {sophrona nomizomen}.
[8] {sophistas}. See Grote, "H. G." viii. 482 foll.; "Hunting," xi.
foll.
[9] Cf. Plat. "Lys." 211 E.
[10] Cf. "Symp." iv. 27.
As I listened to this talk I could not but reflect that he, the
master, was a person to be envied, and that we, his hearers, were
being led by him to beauty and nobility of soul.
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