| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: little ({sitos})?" {epesthion} = follows up one course by another,
like the man in a fragment of Euripides, "Incert." 98: {kreasi
boeiois khlora suk' epesthien}, who "followed up his beefsteak
with a garnish of green figs."
Soc. He has established a very fair title at any rate to the
appellation, and when the rest of the world pray to heaven for a fine
harvest: "May our corn and oil increase!" he may reasonably ejaculate,
"May my fleshpots multiply!"
At this last sally the young man, feeling that the conversation set
somewhat in his direction, did not desist indeed from his savoury
viands, but helped himself generously to a piece of bread. Socrates
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, 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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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Prince von der Tann. Once more he must save the king who
had shown such scant gratitude upon another occasion.
For Leopold, Barney Custer did not give the snap of his
fingers; but what Leopold, the king, stood for in the lives
and sentiments of the Luthanians--of the Von der Tanns--
was very dear to the American because it was dear to a
trim, young girl and to a rugged, leonine, old man, of both
of whom Barney was inordinately fond. And possibly, too, it
was dear to him because of the royal blood his mother
had bequeathed him.
His meal disposed of to the last morsel, and paid for,
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