| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: another.[31]
[26] Or, {misotheron}, "out of antipathy to the quarry." For
{philanthropon} cf. Pollux, ib. 64; Hermog. ap. L. Dind.
[27] Or, "unable apparently to distinguish false from true." See
Sturz, s.v. {poieisthai}. Cf. Plut. "de Exil." 6. Al. "Gaily
substituting false for true."
[28] "In the heat of the chase."
[29] "Rush to attack it."
[30] The fact is, there are as many different modes of following up
the chase almost as there are dogs. Some follow up the chase
{asaphos}, indistinctly; some {polu upolambanousai}, with a good
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: easy to learn that you who have but heard it know and understand it as
well as I myself do, and can go away and teach it to another if you
choose. Yet my father did not learn it of another, nor did he discover
it by a painful mental process;[37] but, as he has often told me,
through pure love of husbandry and fondness of toil, he would become
enamoured of such a spot as I describe,[38] and then nothing would
content him but he must own it, in order to have something to do, and
at the same time, to derive pleasure along with profit from the
purchase. For you must know, Socrates, of all Athenians I have ever
heard of, my father, as it seems to me, had the greatest love for
agricultural pursuits.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: something.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What is it?
STRANGER: A vehicle, which is certainly not the work of the Statesman, but
of the carpenter, potter, and coppersmith.
YOUNG SOCRATES: I understand.
STRANGER: And is there not a fourth class which is again different, and in
which most of the things formerly mentioned are contained,--every kind of
dress, most sorts of arms, walls and enclosures, whether of earth or stone,
and ten thousand other things? all of which being made for the sake of
defence, may be truly called defences, and are for the most part to be
regarded as the work of the builder or of the weaver, rather than of the
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