| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: dragged the corpses of the slain to the wall, and finally gave them up
under a flag of truce, erecting a trophy to record the victory. As a
result of this occurrence the allies of the Lacedaemonians took fresh
heart.
[15] And took (apparently); see below; Diod. xv. 69.
[16] See "Anab." III. iv. 43; and above, "Hell." V. iii. 23.
[17] Lit. "four plethra."
[18] LIt. "three or four stades."
At the date of the above transactions the Lacedeamonians were cheered
by the arrival of a naval reinforcement from Dionysius, consisting of
more than twenty warships, which conveyed a body of Celts and Iberians
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: self-conceit, premising that he was born in the household of Madame
Mere. During his early childhood his eyes were dazzled by imperial
splendors. His pliant imagination retained the impression of those
gorgeous scenes, and nursed the images of a golden time of pleasure in
hopes of recovering them. The natural boastfulness of school-boys
(possessed of a desire to outshine their mates) resting on these
memories of his childhood was developed in him beyond all measure. It
may also have been that his mother at home dwelt too fondly on the
days when she herself was a queen in Directorial Paris. At any rate,
Oscar, who was now leaving school, had been made to bear many
humiliations which the paying pupils put upon those who hold
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