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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: [8] Lit. "metoecs." See "Revenues," ii.
[9] Lit. "men the most antagonistic to the enemy." Is the author
thinking of Boeotian emigres? Cf. "Hell." VI. iii. 1, 5; Diod. xv.
46. 6.
[10] Lit. "with the consenting will of the gods these things all may
come to pass."
And now if the repetition of the phrase throughout this treatise "act
with God," surprises any one, he may take my word for it that with the
daily or hourly occurrence of perils which must betide him, his
wonderment will diminish; as also with the clearer recognition of the
fact that in time of war the antagonists are full of designs against
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