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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: themselves from the ground, or pressed the encounter home by climbing
the ladders which led to the walls. Once masters of certain towers on
this side and the other of the invaders, the citizens came to close
quarters with them with reckless desperation. The invaders, pushed and
pommelled by dint of such audacity and hard hitting, were cooped up
like sheep into narrower and narrower space. But at that critical
moment the Arcadians and the Argives were circling round the city, and
had begun to dig through the walls of the citadel from its upper
side.[7] Of the citizens inside some were beating down their
assailants on the wall;[8] others, those of them who were climbing up
from outside and were still on the scaling-ladders, whilst a third set
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