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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: at the games, and yet had not dared to fight for it. He himself
was of opinion, that to keep a mean in such things was best; he
assisted at the sports and dances usual in his own country, and was
always ready and eager to be present at the exercises either of the
young men, or of the girls, but things that many men used to be
highly taken with, he seemed not at all concerned about.
Callippides, the tragic actor, who had a great name in all Greece
and was made much of, once met and saluted him; of which when he
found no notice taken, he confidently thrust himself into his
train, expecting that Agesilaus would pay him some attention. When
all that failed, he boldly accosted him, and asked him, whether he
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