| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: Autolycus was killed eventually by the Thirty to please the
Lacedaemonian harmost. See Plut. "Lysand." 15 (Clough, iii. 120);
Paus. i. 18. 3; ix. 32. 8. Cf. "Hell." II. iii. 14.
[81] Cf. "Anab." IV. i. 20; "Mem." III. vi. 2.
[82] {periepein}. Cf. "Cyrop." IV. iv. 12; "Mem." II. ix. 5.
If, then, you wish to be well-pleasing in his eyes, you had best
inquire by what knowledge Themistocles[83] was able to set Hellas
free. You should ask yourself, what keen wit belonged to Pericles[83]
that he was held to be the best adviser of his fatherland. You should
scan[84] the field of history to learn by what sage wisdom Solon[85]
established for our city her consummate laws. I would have you find
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: capture the quarry at all; since the antagonists he deals with are
doing battle for bare life and in their native haunts,[26] and are
consequently in great force. So that if he fails to overmatch the
beasts by a zest for toil transcending theirs and plentiful
intelligence, the huntsman's labours are in vain.
[15] Or, "surrender themselves heedlessly to the ways of self-
seeking." But the phraseology here seems to savour of extreme
youth, or else senility.
[16] {enthumethenta}. Query, in reference to {enthumemata} above?
[17] Reading {andron}. For the vulg. {auton} see Schneid. ad loc., who
suggests {ton aston}.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: 'Yes, I am rather,' said Nikita, and they went across the yard
and the passage into the house.
IV
The household to which Vasili Andreevich had come was one of
the richest in the village. The family had five allotments,
besides renting other land. They had six horses, three cows,
two calves, and some twenty sheep. There were twenty-two
members belonging to the homestead: four married sons, six
grandchildren (one of whom, Petrushka, was married), two
great-grandchildren, three orphans, and four daughters-in-law
with their babies. It was one of the few homesteads that
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