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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: Orthia[17]] was a feat to be encouraged; but, at the same moment,
others were enjoined to scourge the thief, which would point a moral
not obscurely, that by pain endured for a brief season a man may earn
the joyous reward of lasting glory.[18] Herein, too, it is plainly
shown that where speed is requisite the sluggard will win for himself
much trouble and scant good.
[17] I.e. "Artemis of the Steep"--a title connecting the goddess with
Mount Orthion or Orthosion. See Pausan. VIII. xxiii. 1; and for
the custom, see Themistius, "Or." 21, p. 250 A. The words have
perhaps got out of their right place. See Schneider's Index, s.v.
[18] See Plut. "Lycurg." 18; "Morals," 239 C; "Aristid." 17; Cic.
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