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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: through the multitude of prizes offered[23] under many heads, expenses
also must be much increased, consider that no articles of commerce can
be got more cheaply than those which people purchase in exchange for
prizes. Note in the public contests (choral, equestrian, or
gymnastic)[24] how small the prizes are and yet what vast expenditure
of wealth and toil, and painful supervision these elicit.[25]
[23] Reading {protithemenon} with Cobet.
[24] Lit. "hippic, gymnic, and choregic contests."
[25] e.g. "in the choral dances (1) money on the part of the choragoi;
(2) pains on the part of the choreutai; (3) supervising care on
the part of the choro-didaskoi, and so mutatis mutandis of the
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