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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: honour.[6]
[1] Lit. "that human beings will abide all risks and undergo all pains
to clutch the bait."
[2] Cf. "Cyrop." II. iii. 8; VIII. i. 29.
[3] Cf. "Mem." II. iii. 16; "Cyrop." VII. v. 20.
[4] {gerairosi}, poetic. Cf. "Cyrop." VIII. i. 39; "Hell." I. vii. 33;
"Econ." iv. 8; "Herod." v. 67; Pind. "O." iii. 3, v. 11; "N." v.
15; "Od." xiv. 437, 441; "Il." vii. 321; Plat. "Rep." 468 D,
quoting "Il." vii. 321.
[5] Reading {tois turannois}, or if {tous turannous}, after Cobet,
"That is how they treat crowned heads."
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