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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: overlooking the desert, amazed at the multitude of fires they
saw, sent messengers upon dromedaries to acquaint Peucestes. He
being astonished and almost out of his senses with the news, and
finding the rest in no less disorder, resolved to fly, and
collect what men he could by the way. But Eumenes relieved him
from his fear and trouble, undertaking so to stop the enemy's
advance, that he should arrive three days later than he was
expected. Having persuaded them, he immediately dispatched
expresses to all the officers to draw the men out of their winter
quarters, and muster them with all speed. He himself with some
of the chief officers rode out, and chose an elevated tract
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