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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: providential care for you. And if danger threatens, you will find in
them not simply fellow-warriors, but champions eager to defend you
with their lives.[11]
[11] Not {summakhoi}, but {promakhoi}.
Worthy of many gifts you shall be deemed, and yet be never at a loss
for some well-wisher with whom to share them. You shall command a
world-wide loyalty; a whole people shall rejoice with you at your good
fortunes, a whole people battle for your interests, as if in very deed
and truth their own. Your treasure-houses shall be coextensive with
the garnered riches of your friends and lovers.
Therefore be of good cheer, Hiero; enrich your friends, and you will
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