| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: [2] Or possibly, "his deliberate behaviour."
[3] Or, "have succeeded in hitting off"; "done full justice to."
[4] Or, "the magniloquence of the master."
[5] Or, "so that according to them his lofty speech seems rather
foolhardy."
[6] See "Mem." IV. viii. 4 foll.), a passage of which this is either
an "ebauchement" or a "rechauffe."
[7] Or, "the philosopher's cast of thought."
[8] Dikasteries.
[9] {to daimonion}.
[10] {edein}, i.e. at any moment.
The Apology |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: forget that I was doomed to the sacrifice, and that every day
brought me nearer to the red knife of the priest.
I desired to forget, but alas! I could not. The fumes of the
mescal and the pulque that I had drunk at feasts would pass from my
brain, the perfume of flowers, the sights of beauty and the
adoration of the people would cease to move me, and I could only
brood heavily upon my doom and think with longing of my distant
love and home. In those days, had it not been for the tender
kindness of Otomie, I think that my heart would have broken or I
should have slain myself. But this great and beauteous lady was
ever at hand to cheer me in a thousand ways, and now and again she
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
Anabasis |
