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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: ({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.
Well then, suppose that some one were to offer prizes[15] to these
political departments on the pattern of the choric prizes just
described; prizes for excellence of arms, or skill in tactics, or for
discipline and so forth, or for skill in horsemanship; prizes for
prowess[16] in the field of battle, bravery in war; prizes for
uprightness[17] in fulfilment of engagements, contracts, covenants. If
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