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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: counting the common salvation of all a gain, and reckoning it as a
loss if even a mean man perished. For thus he reasoned, nor made a
secret of the conclusion he had come to: so long as her citizens
continued tranquilly adherent to the laws the happiness of Sparta was
secure.[7] And for the rest Sparta would once again be strong on that
day when the states of Hellas should learn wisdom.
[3] Or, "he was at the same time the most obvious in his allegiance to
the laws."
[4] Lit. "would have taken on himself . . . would have ventured on
revolution."
[5] Lit. "as a father to his children."
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