62 - Xenophon, Anabasis V
Cost of Glory
Xenophon's Questioning of the Sick Man
Xenophon asked him if he was a hoplight. Those are the highest status soldiers. And the guy says no. Was he a peltast then? No, not that either. He said, but he was driving a mule assigned to that post by his mess mates,. Although he was a free man. So he's doing a sort of dishonorable work in the army there.
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