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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: side.[7] Of the citizens inside some were beating down their
assailants on the wall;[8] others, those of them who were climbing up
from outside and were still on the scaling-ladders, whilst a third set
were delivering battle against those who had mounted the towers. These
last had found fire in the men's quarters, and were engaged in setting
the towers and all ablaze, bringing up sheaves of corn and grass--an
ample harvesting, as luck would have it, garnered off the citadel
itself. Thereupon the occupants of the towers, in terror of the
flames, leapt down one by one, while those on the walls, under the
blows of the defenders, tumbled off with similar expedition; and as
soon as they had once begun to yield, the whole citadel, in almost
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