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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [42] Al. "against the sun's rays."
[43] Or, "dull and mal-concentrated." See Pollux, v. 69.
[44] i.e. "its eyes are not rested, because it sleeps with them open."
[45] i.e. "it goes so quick, that before it can notice what the
particular object is, it must avert its gaze to the next, and then
the next, and so on."
The alarm, too, of those hounds for ever at its heels pursuing
combines with everything[46] to rob the creature of all prescience; so
that for this reason alone it will run its head into a hundred dangers
unawares, and fall into the toils. If it held on its course
uphill,[47] it would seldom meet with such a fate; but now, through
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