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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: their own free will, and when the moment of danger comes refuse to
part from him.[13] Now this was the case with Cyrus. His friends not
only fought their battles side by side with him while he lived, but
when he died they too died battling around his dead body, one and all,
excepting only Ariaeus, who was absent at his post on the left wing of
the army.[14] But there is another tale of this same Cyrus in
connection with Lysander, who himself narrated it on one occasion to a
friend of his in Megara.[15]
[12] Cf. "Anab." I. ix. 29 foll.
[13] Cf. "Hiero," xi. 12, and our author passim.
[14] See "Anab." ib. 31.
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