Xenophon, Memorabilia, Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator), 3.4.3

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[3]
But, cried Socrates, Antisthenes also is eager for victory, and that is a good point in a general.¹ Whenever he has been choragus, you know, his choir has always won.
No doubt, said Nicomachides, but there is no analogy between the handling of a choir and of an army.

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.) — 3.4.3 focus

[3] καὶ ὁ Σωκράτης ἔφη· ἀλλὰ καὶ φιλόνικος Ἀντισθένης ἐστίν, ὃ στρατηγῷ προσεῖναι ἐπιτήδειόν ἐστιν· οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι καὶ ὁσάκις κεχορήγηκε πᾶσι τοῖς χοροῖς νενίκηκε; μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη ὁ Νικομαχίδης, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲν ὅμοιόν ἐστι χοροῦ τε καὶ στρατεύματος προεστάναι.

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Memorabilia

1. Cyropaedia I. vi. 18.

Xenophon Memorabilia 3.4.3

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