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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: tyrant's heel.
[16] Lit. "shield to shield."
[17] Lit. "to-day," "nowadays."
[18] {mala liparoumenoi}. See Thuc. i. 66 foll.; vi. 88.
[19] See "Pol. Lac." xiv.
"Then again take the case of those whom they have detached from
yourselves. In the most patent way they have cajoled and cheated them;
in place of freedom they have presented them with a twofold slavery.
The allies are tyrannised over by the governor and tyrannised over by
the ten commissioners set up by Lysander over every city.[20] And to
come lastly to the great king. In spite of all the enormous
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