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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: [3] Or, "a common citizen," "an ordinary mortal," "a private
individual."
[4] Or, "having experienced both lots in life, both forms of
existence."
Would it not be simpler (Hiero replied) if you, on your side,[5] who
are still to-day a private person, would refresh my memory by
recalling the various circumstances of an ordinary mortal's life? With
these before me,[6] I should be better able to describe the points of
difference which exist between the one life and the other.
[5] Simonides is still in the chrysalis or grub condition of private
citizenship; he has not broken the shell as yet of ordinary
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