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BOOK VIII
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The archic man's dealings by those of his subjects who are apt to rule, the men of high thoughts and ambitions, with whom he must come into constant personal contact.

With them the spiritual dominance alone will do.

They shall be made to love him rather than themselves.
(The only thing just here that jars is a sort of Machiavellian self-consciousness, resented in the archic man).
C1.46.A cumbrous disjointed sentence, but the thought of it is clear enough.

Even Xenophon's style breaks down when he tries to say in a breath more than he naturally can.

Is it a sign of senility, or half-thought-out ideas, or what?
C2.2, fin.


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