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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: back his captives on foot--concealing as deeply as possible the fact
that he, and he alone, was the object of the mission. Their reason for
not securing him in the city was that they did not really know the
extent of the mischief; and they wished, in the first instance, to
learn from Cinadon who his accomplices were before these latter could
discover they were informed against and effect their escape. His
captors were to secure him first, and having learnt from him the names
of his confederates, to write them down and send them as quickly as
possible to the ephors. The ephors, indeed, were so much concerned
about the whole occurrence that they further sent a company of horse
to assist their agents at Aulon.[12] As soon as the capture was
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