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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: their own side, but the sportsman confines himself to the common
enemy. This training of theirs renders the one set more able to cope
with the foreign foe, the others far less able. The hunting of the one
is carried on with self-restraint, of the others with effrontery. The
one can look down with contempt upon maliciousness and sordid love of
gain, the other cannot. The very speech and intonation of the one has
melody, of the other harshness. And with regard to things divine, the
one set know no obstacle to their impiety, the others are of all men
the most pious. Indeed ancient tales affirm[28] that the very gods
themselves take joy in this work[29] as actors and spectators. So
that,[30] with due reflection on these things, the young who act upon
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