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When another said that he was worn out after a long journey, he asked him whether he had carried a load.
Oh no, said the man; only my cloak.
Were you alone, or had you a footman with you?
I had.
Empty-handed or carrying anything?
He carried the rugs and the rest of the baggage, of course.
And how has he come out of the journey?
Better than I, so far as I can tell.
Well then, if you had been forced to carry his load, how would you have felt, do you suppose?
Bad, of course; or rather, I couldn’t have done it.
Indeed! do you think a trained man ought to be so much less capable of work than his slave?
When another said that he was worn out after a long journey, he asked him whether he had carried a load.
Oh no, said the man; only my cloak.
Were you alone, or had you a footman with you?
I had.
Empty-handed or carrying anything?
He carried the rugs and the rest of the baggage, of course.
And how has he come out of the journey?
Better than I, so far as I can tell.
Well then, if you had been forced to carry his load, how would you have felt, do you suppose?
Bad, of course; or rather, I couldn’t have done it.
Indeed! do you think a trained man ought to be so much less capable of work than his slave?
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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