The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: [44] Cf. Ter. "Andr." iii. 3. 23, "amantium irae amoris
intergratiost."
[45] "To make booty of."
[46] For {aptesthai} L. & S. cf. Plat. "Laws," 840 A; Aristot. "H. A."
v. 14. 27; Ep. 1 Cor. vii. 1.
[47] Reading {au}. "If we do know anything it is this, that," etc.
[48] Or, "do oftenest issue from treacherous make-believe of warmest
friendship." Cf. Grote, "H. G." xi. 288; "Hell." VI. iv. 36.
II
To these arguments Simonides replied: Yes, but the topics you have
named are to my thinking trifles; drops, as it were, in the wide
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