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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: country labourers with their flocks and herds would greatly benefit, a
benefit not limited to your demesne, but shared by every farm
throughout the rural district.
Again, these mercenaries, if set to guard strategic points,[5] would
leave the citizens full leisure to attend to matters of more private
interest.
[5] Or, "as garrisons of critical positions," like Phyle or Decelia
near Athens.
And again, a further function: Can you conceive a service better
qualified to gain intelligence beforehand and to hinder the secret
sudden onslaughts of a hostile force, than a set of troopers always
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