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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: Guards must be impressed and sentinels posted wherever there is need
of watch and ward. We have to chastise evil-doers; we must put a stop
to those who would wax insolent.[17] And when the season for swift
action comes, and it is imperative to expedite a force by land or sea,
at such a crisis it will not do for us to entrust the affair to easy-
goers.
[17] Or, "curb the over-proud in sap and blood."
Further than that, the man who is a tyrant must have mercenaries, and
of all the burdens which the citizens are called upon to bear there is
none more onerous than this, since nothing will induce them to believe
these people are supported by the tyrant to add to his and their
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