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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: similar inventiveness? Indeed, when one comes to consider what is
meant by advantages snatched in war, one will find, i think, that the
greater part of them, and those the more important, must be attributed
in some way or other to displays of craft;[8] which things being so, a
man had better either not attempt to exercise command, or, as part and
parcel of his general equipment, let him pray to Heaven to enable him
to exercise this faculty and be at pains himself to cultivate his own
inventiveness.
[6] Cf. "Cyrop." IV. ii. 26; VII. i. 18.
[7] {posinda}, lit. "How many?" (i.e. dice, nuts, marbles, etc.); cf.
the old game, "Buck! buck! how many horns do I hold up?" Schneid.
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