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Again, when someone had been chosen a leader of cavalry, I remember that Socrates conversed with him in the following manner:
Young man, he said, can you tell us why you hankered after a cavalry command? I presume it was not to be first of the cavalry in the charge; for that privilege belongs to the mounted archers; at any rate they ride ahead of their commanders even.
True.
Nor was it to get yourself known either. Even madmen are known to everyone.
True again.
Again, when someone had been chosen a leader of cavalry, I remember that Socrates conversed with him in the following manner:
Young man, he said, can you tell us why you hankered after a cavalry command? I presume it was not to be first of the cavalry in the charge; for that privilege belongs to the mounted archers; at any rate they ride ahead of their commanders even.
True.
Nor was it to get yourself known either. Even madmen are known to everyone.
True again.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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