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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: like being.[15] For if I rightly understand this blessed gift, this
faculty of command over willing followers, by no means is it, in its
entirety, a merely human quality, but it is in part divine. It is a
gift plainly given to those truly initiated[16] in the mystery of
self-command. Whereas despotism over unwilling slaves, the heavenly
ones give, as it seems to me, to those whom they deem worthy to live
the life of Tantalus in Hades, of whom it is written[17] "he consumes
unending days in apprehension of a second death."
[11] According to Sturz, "Lex." s.v., the {epitropos} is (as a rule,
see "Mem." II. viii.) a slave or freedman, the {epistates} a free
man. See "Mem." III. v. 18.
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