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“Do you know then, that in point of numbers the Athenians are not inferior to the Boeotians?”“Yes, I know.”“Do you think that the larger number of fine, well-developed men could be selected from among the Boeotians or the Athenians?”“In that matter too they seem to be at no disadvantage.”“Which do you think are the more united?”“The Athenians, I should say, for many of the Boeotians resent the selfish behaviour of the Thebans. At Athens I see nothing of that sort.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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