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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: man,' which they apply to those whom they expressively admire--so,
too, brutality is a type of character rarely found among men"
(Robert Williams).
[7] Reading {etheloponia tis}, or if {philoponia}, transl. "just as
some strange delight in labour may quicken in the heart of many an
individual soldier." See "Anab." IV. vii. 11.
Happy must that leader be whose followers are thus attached to him:
beyond all others he will prove a stout and strong commander. And by
strong, I mean, not one so hale of body as to tower above the stoutest
of the soldiery themselves; no, nor him whose skill to hurl a javelin
or shoot an arrow will outshine the skilfullest; nor yet that mounted
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