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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: contests,[26] their quite unrivalled subservience to their teachers in
the training of our choruses.
[26] Epistatoi, i.e. stewards and training-masters.
Yes (he answered), there's the wonder of it; to think that all those
good people should so obey their leaders, but that our hoplites and
our cavalry, who may be supposed to rank before the rest of the
citizens in excellence of manhood,[27] should be so entirely
unamenable to discipline.
[27] {kalokagathia}.
Then Socrates: Well, but the council which sits on Areopagos is
composed of citizens of approved[28] character, is it not?
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