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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: And that virtue has another familiar attendant--to wit, glory--needs
no showing, since the whole world would fain ally themselves after
some sort in battle with the good.
[1] See Homer, "Il." v. 532; Tyrtaeus, 11, 14, {tressanton d' andron
pas' apolol arete}.
Yet the actual means by which he gave currency to these principles is
a point which it were well not to overlook. It is clear that the
lawgiver set himself deliberately to provide all the blessings of
heaven for the good man, and a sorry and ill-starred existence for the
coward.
In other states the man who shows himself base and cowardly wins to
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