
63 - Xenophon, Anabasis VI
Cost of Glory
Xenophon and Cleander
Xenophon and Cleander, they become guest friends. They make sacrifices to see if he should leave the army but gods tell him no. He says he'll be happy to help the army out in any other way that he can. And so they leave on good terms. The army offers him the whole flock of sheep that was in dispute and he accepts the sheep and then he gives them back. It's a lesson here about what happens when people are nasty. If a person is bad in one way, chances are they're going to be bad in other ways. So don't let yourself be bad in any way and be on the lookout for people who are. That's what Xen
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