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“Your analogy is perfect, Socrates,” said the youth; “for in war one must put the best men in the van and the rear,1 and the worst in the centre, that they may be led by the van and driven forward by the rearguard.”
1 ibid. VII. v. 4.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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