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And it may be that the god is guiding events in this way, he who wills that those who talked boastfully, as though possessed of superior wisdom, should be brought low, and that we, who always begin with the gods,1 should be set in a place of higher honour than those boasters. And now you must keep in line and on the alert, so that you can carry out the orders that are given.
1 i.e. consult the gods before undertaking any enterprise. The expression was proverbial.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 3. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1922.
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PREPOSITIONS
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Appendix
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- LSJ, βούλομαι
- LSJ, μεγα^λ-ηγορέω
- LSJ, τα^πειν-όω
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