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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: welcomed home her husband deep in his cups and laid him to rest, and
then while the lamp still burned brought out the prince's sword. It
was she also who, perceiving her brothers shrank bank, fearing to go
in and attack Alexander, said to them, "If you do not be quick and do
the deed, I will wake him up!" After they had gone in, she, too, it
was who caught and pulled to the door, clinging fast to the knocker
till the breath was out of her husband's body.[33] Her fierce hatred
against the man is variously explained. By some it was said to date
from the day when Alexander, having imprisoned his own favourite--who
was a fair young stripling--when his wife supplicated him to release
the boy, brought him forth and stabbed him in the throat. Others say
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