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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: is theirs to see that none of themselves, no citizen, shall perish by
a violent death. And they have advanced so far along the path of
guardianship[7] that in many cases they have framed a law to the
effect that "not the associate even of one who is blood-guilty shall
be accounted pure." So that, by reason of their fatherland,[8] each
several citizen can live at quiet and secure.
[6] "Are their own 'satellites,' spear-bearers." Cf. Thuc. i. 130;
Herod. ii. 168; vii. 127.
[7] "Pushed so far the principle of mutual self-aid."
[8] "Thanks to the blessing of a fatherland each citizen may spend his
days in peace and safety."
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