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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: are all leaders,[11] so that each file has everything necessary to
play its part efficiently. In fact, this disposition is so easy to
understand that no one who can distinguish one human being from
another could fail to follow it. One set have the privilege of
leaders, the other the duty of followers. The evolutional orders,[12]
by which greater depth or shallowness is given to the battle line, are
given by word of mouth by the enomotarch (or commander of the
section), who plays the part of the herald, and they cannot be
mistaken. None of these manouvres presents any difficulty whatsoever
to the understanding.
[11] See "Anab." IV. iii. 26; "Cyrop." III. iii. 59; VI. iii. 22.
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