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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: multifarious points to advise upon concerning peace and war,[5]
concerning ways and means, concerning the framing and passing of
laws,[6] and concerning the thousand and one matters affecting the
state perpetually occurring, and endless questions touching the
allies; besides the receipt of the tribute, the superintendence of
dockyards and temples, etc. Can, I ask again, any one find it at all
surprising that, with all these affairs on their hands, they are
unequal to doing business with all the world?
[3] See Arist. "Wasps," 661.
[4] This sentence is perhaps a gloss.
[5] Or, "about the war," {peri tou polemou}.
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