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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: length[11] the space covered by a regimental division,[12] so that no
one may find himself far from his own stand of arms. After the
gymnastic exercises the senior polemarch gives the order (by herald)
to be seated. This serves all the purposes of an inspection. After
this the order is given "to get breakfast," and for "the outposts[13]
to be relieved." After this, again, come pastimes and relaxations
before the evening exercises, after which the herald's cry is heard
"to take the evening meal." When they have sung a hymn to the gods to
whom the offerings of happy omen had been performed, the final order,
"Retire to rest at the place of arms,"[14] is given.
[8] Cf. Herod. vii. 208; Plut. "Lycurg." 22 (Clough, i. 113 foll.)
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