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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: Theogn. 1244, {ethos ekhon solion pistios antitupon}. "Hell." VI.
iii. 11.
[13] Or, "Well then, what reason is there why other matters of
political concern--all other branches of our civic life, in fact--
should not be carried out on this same principle?"
All states as units are divided into tribes ({thulas}), or regiments
({moras}), or companies ({lokhous}), and there are officers
({arkhontes}) appointed in command of each division.[14]
[14] e.g. Attica into ten phylae, Lacedaemon into six morae, Thebes
and Argos into lochi. See Aristot. "Pol." v. 8 (Jowett, i. 166);
"Hell." VI. iv. 13; VII. ii. 4.
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