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There is a hedonistic test, but the higher hedonism prevails against the lower: ignoble and impolitic to sit here feasting while they are fighting, and we don't even know how it fares with them, our allies.

The style rises and is at times Pauline.

St.
Paul, of course, is moving on a higher spiritual plane, but still-- C2.45, fin.

The Education of Cyrus, Cyropaedia, {Keroupaideia}; the name justified.
C2.46.

Hystaspas' simple response: important, with other passages, to show how naturally it came to them (i.e.the Hellenes and Xenophon) to give a spiritual application to their rules of bodily and mental training.


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