| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: little ({sitos})?" {epesthion} = follows up one course by another,
like the man in a fragment of Euripides, "Incert." 98: {kreasi
boeiois khlora suk' epesthien}, who "followed up his beefsteak
with a garnish of green figs."
Soc. He has established a very fair title at any rate to the
appellation, and when the rest of the world pray to heaven for a fine
harvest: "May our corn and oil increase!" he may reasonably ejaculate,
"May my fleshpots multiply!"
At this last sally the young man, feeling that the conversation set
somewhat in his direction, did not desist indeed from his savoury
viands, but helped himself generously to a piece of bread. Socrates
The Memorabilia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: solve. I mean an officer who must be competent to so assert himself in
speech or action[22] that those under him will no longer hesitate.
They will recognise of themselves that it is a good thing and a right
to obey,[23] to follow their leader, to rush to close quarters with
the foe. A desire will consume them to achieve some deed of glory and
renown. A capacity will be given them patiently to abide by the
resolution of their souls.
[21] {parelontas}, in reference to S. 18 above, {parelaunoi}, "form
squadron to the front."
[22] "To be this, he must be able as an orator as well as a man of
action." Cf. "Mem." II. ii. 11.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: most strangers on their first entrance were observed to grow
extremely thoughtful, as weighing and pondering in their minds
whether the upper rooms were only approachable by ladders from
without; never suspecting that two of the most unassuming and
unlikely doors in existence, which the most ingenious mechanician
on earth must of necessity have supposed to be the doors of
closets, opened out of this room--each without the smallest
preparation, or so much as a quarter of an inch of passage--upon
two dark winding flights of stairs, the one upward, the other
downward, which were the sole means of communication between that
chamber and the other portions of the house.
Barnaby Rudge |
