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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: those that actually perished. So truly glorious a thing it seems to
them to have won a great victory.[16]
[10] Lit. "and further, wars there are, waged against forcibly-
subjected populations whether by free states"--e.g. of Olynthus,
"Hell." V. ii. 23, or Athens against her "subject allies" during
the Pel. war--"or by despotic rules"--Jason of Pherae ("Hell."
VI.) Al. "wars waged by free states against free states, and wars
waged by tyrants against enslaved peoples."
[11] Does {o en tais polesi} = "the citizen"? So some commentators; or
(sub. {polemos}) = "the war among states" (see Hartman, op. cit.
p. 248)? in which case transl. "all the hardships involved in
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