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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: Ah, yes! and you, my friend (he turned to Callias), you have good
reason to be thankful to the gods who of their grace inspired you with
love for your Autolycus. Covetous of honour,[77] beyond all
controversy, must he be, who could endure so many toils and pains to
hear his name proclaimed[78] victor in the "pankration."
[77] See "Mem." II. iii. 16; "Isocr." 189 C, {ph. kai megalopsukhoi}.
[78] i.e. "by the public herald."
But what if the thought arose within him:[79] his it is not merely to
add lustre to himself and to his father, but that he has ability,
through help of manly virtue, to benefit his friends and to exalt his
fatherland, by trophies which he will set up against our enemies in
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