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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: single Lacedaemonian had been slain.[36] Those in Sparta to whom the
news was brought, as says the story, when they heard it, one and all,
beginning with Agesilaus, and, after him, the elders and the ephors,
wept for joy--so close akin are tears to joy and pain alike. There
were others hardly less pleased than the Lacedaemonians themselves at
the misfortune which had overtaken the Arcadians: these were the
Thebans and Eleians--so offensive to them had the boastful behaviour
of these men become.
[35] See Xen. "Apolog." 12; Homer, "Il." ii. 353; "Od." xx. 113 foll.
[36] According to Diod. xv. 72, ten thousand of the enemy fell.
The problem perpetually working in the minds of the Thebans was how
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