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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: [7] Or, "will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business
through mere diminutiveness."
[8] Or, "a hook-nosed (? pig-jawed, see Stonehenge, "The Dog," p. 19,
4th ed.) dog has a bad mouth and cannot hold."
[9] Or, "a short-sighted, wall-eyed dog has defective vision."
[10] Or, "they are weedy, ugly brutes as a rule."
[11] Or, "stiffness of limbs means he will come off." Cf. "Mem." III.
xiii. 6.
[12] Lit. "a weak, thinly-haired animal is incapable of severe toil."
[13] Or, "Nor will courage compensate for unsound feet. The toil and
moil will be too great to endure, and owing to the pains in his
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