Xenophon, Memorabilia, Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator), 3.1.8

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[8]
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.

Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.

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Memorabilia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.)

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Ἀπομνημονεύματα Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 2. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 3.1.8 focus

[8] ἀλλὰ πάνυ, ἔφη ὁ νεανίσκος, ὅμοιον, ὦ Σώκρατες, εἴρηκας. καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τοὺς ἀρίστους δεῖ πρώτους τάττειν καὶ τελευταίους, ἐν μέσῳ δὲ τοὺς χειρίστους, ἵνα ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν ἄγωνται, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν ὠθῶνται.

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Memorabilia

1. ibid. VII. v. 4.

Xenophon Memorabilia 3.1.8

Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator)

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