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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: their degree, might be expected to attain to some unknown height of
manly virtue.
[1] See "Hell." V. iv. 32.
[2] Cf. "Cyrop." II. i. 22.
[3] Or, "pit face to face."
What method he adopted to engage these combatants I will now explain.
It is on this wise. Their ephors select three men out of the whole
body of the citizens in the prime of life. These three are named
Hippagretai, or masters of the horse. Each of these selects one
hundred others, being bound to explain for what reason he prefers in
honour these and disapproves of those. The result is that those who
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