| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: same time we add distinctly to the strength and grandeur of our city.
[1] Lit. "metics" or "metoecs."
[2] {misthos}, e.g. of the assembly, the senate, and the dicasts.
[3] The {metoikion}. See Plat. "Laws," 850 B; according to Isaeus, ap.
Harpocr. s.v., it was 12 drachmae per annum for a male and 6
drachmae for a female.
[4] Or, "the class in question." According to Schneider (who cites the
{atimetos metanastes} of Homer, "Il." ix. 648), the reference is
not to disabilities in the technical sense, but to humiliating
duties, such as the {skaphephoria} imposed on the men, or the
{udriaphoria} and {skiadephoria} imposed on their wives and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "I don't know of anything in particular, thank you."
The inspector came up, and without waiting for a remark from him
Nekhludoff took leave, and went out with peace, joy, and love
towards everybody in his heart such as he had never felt before.
The certainty that no action of Maslova could change his love for
her filled him with joy and raised him to a level which he had
never before attained. Let her intrigue with the medical
assistant; that was her business. He loved her not for his own
but for her sake and for God's.
And this intrigue, for which Maslova was turned out of the
hospital, and of which Nekhludoff believed she was really guilty,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: in line of battle with their backs to the River Ti. Seeing this
maneuver, the whole army of Chao broke into loud laughter. By
this time it was broad daylight, and Han Hsin, displaying the
generalissimo's flag, marched out of the pass with drums beating,
and was immediately engaged by the enemy. A great battle
followed, lasting for some time; until at length Han Hsin and his
colleague Chang Ni, leaving drums and banner on the field, fled
to the division on the river bank, where another fierce battle
was raging. The enemy rushed out to pursue them and to secure
the trophies, thus denuding their ramparts of men; but the two
generals succeeded in joining the other army, which was fighting
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