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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: fear to scorch us to our hurt unduly; and again, when he has reached a
point where if he should prolong his reatreat we should plainly be
frozen to death with cold, note how he turns him about and resumes his
approach, traversing that region of the heavens where he may shed his
genial influence best upon us.
[14] A single MS. inserts a passage {to de kai era . . .
'Anekphraston}.
[15] i.e. as we say, "after the winter solstice."
Yes, upon my word (he answered), these occurrences bear the impress of
being so ordered for the sake of man.
Soc. And then, again, it being manifest that we could not endure
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