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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: proffer lives enough to die in compensation of the dead men he has
slain? how die a thousand deaths?
[20] Holden aptly cf. Plut. "Sol." 14, {kalon men einai ten torannida
khorion, ouk ekhein de apobasin}, "it was true a tyrrany was a
very fair spot, but it had no way down from it" (Clough, i. p.
181).
[21] Or, "how undergo in his own person the imprisonments he has
inflicted?" Reading {antipaskhoi}, or if {antiparaskhoi}, transl.
"how could he replace in his own person the exact number of
imprisonments which he has inflicted on others?"
Ah, no! Simonides (he added), if to hang one's self outright be ever
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