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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: looted. The Thebans and the rest were no less anxious to get out of
the country, though for other reasons, partly because the army was
melting away under their eyes day by day, partly because the
necessities of life were growing daily scantier, so much had been
either fairly eaten up and pillaged or else recklessly squandered and
reduced to ashes. Besides this, it was winter; so that on every ground
there was a general desire by this time to get away home.
As son as the enemy began his retreat from Laconian soil, Iphicrates
imitated his movement, and began leading back his troops out of
Arcadia into Corinthia. Iphicrates exhibited much good generalship, no
doubt, with which I have no sort of fault to find. But it is not so
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