| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: lies unproductive), to pay for necessaries or military aid.
[1] Or, "on a sound basis."
[2] "Exploited."
[3] Or, "at the date when the maximum of hands was employed."
[4] Reading {epikataskeuazumenois}, or, if {episkeuazomenoi}, transl.
"at the rehabilitation of old works."
[5] Cf. "Oecon." xvii. 12.
[6] "The thousand and one embellishments of civil life."
[7] "When a state is struck down with barrenness," etc. See "Mem." II.
vii.
And if it be asserted that gold is after all just as useful as silver,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: to flight. Mnasippus, unable to succour those who were being pressed
owing to the attack of the enemy immediately in front, found himself
left from moment to moment with decreasing numbers. At last the
Corcyraeans collected, and with one united effort made a final rush
upon Mnasippus and his men, whose numbers were now considerably
reduced. At the same instant the townsmen,[14] eagerly noticing the
posture of affairs, rushed out to play their part. First Mnasippus was
slain, and then the pursuit became general; nor could the pursuers
well have failed to capture the camp, barricade and all, had they not
caught sight of the mob of traffickers with a long array of attendants
and slaves, and thinking that here was a prize indeed, desisted from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: you to do me a service, even though you have passed your word.'
" 'Sardanapalus!' said I to myself, 'am I going to let that fellow
imagine that I will not keep my word with him?'
" 'I had the honor of telling you yesterday,' said he, 'that I had
fallen out with Daddy Gobseck most inopportunely; and as there is
scarcely another man in Paris who can come down on the nail with a
hundred thousand francs, at the end of the month, I begged of you to
make my peace with him. But let us say no more about it----'
"M. de Trailles looked at me with civil insult in his expression, and
made as if he would take his leave.
" 'I am ready to go with you,' said I.
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