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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: Since what follows? In the first place, you will by one swift stroke
have brought about the very thing you have set your heart on, you will
have won the affection of your subjects. Secondly, you will need no
herald to proclaim your victory; not one man only, but all mankind,
shall hymn your virtue.
Wherever you set foot you shall be gazed upon, and not by individual
citizens alone, but by a hundred states be warmly welcomed. You shall
be a marvel, not in the private circle only, but in public in the
sight of all.
It shall be open to you, so far as safety is concerned, to take your
journey where you will to see the games or other spectacles; or it
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