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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: friend lights like a fly on your hand at random, or do you use any
artifice[6] yourself to attract him?
[6] Or, "means and appliances," "machinery."
Theod. And how might I hit upon any artifice to attract him?
Soc. Bless me! far more naturally than any spider. You know how they
capture the creatures on which they live;[7] by weaving webs of
gossamer, is it not? and woe betide the fly that tumbles into their
toils! They eat him up.
[7] Lit. "the creatures on which they live."
Theod. So then you would consel me to weave myself some sort of net?
Soc. Why, surely you do not suppose you are going to ensnare that
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