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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: the joyous reward of lasting glory.[18] Herein, too, it is plainly
shown that where speed is requisite the sluggard will win for himself
much trouble and scant good.
[17] I.e. "Artemis of the Steep"--a title connecting the goddess with
Mount Orthion or Orthosion. See Pausan. VIII. xxiii. 1; and for
the custom, see Themistius, "Or." 21, p. 250 A. The words have
perhaps got out of their right place. See Schneider's Index, s.v.
[18] See Plut. "Lycurg." 18; "Morals," 239 C; "Aristid." 17; Cic.
"Tusc." ii. 14.
Furthermore, and in order that the boys should not want a ruler, even
in case the pastor[19] himself were absent, he gave to any citizen who
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