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During the time, therefore, when he was not yet quite able to do favours through gifts of money, he tried to win the love of those about him by taking forethought for them and labouring for them and showing that he rejoiced with them in their good fortune and sympathized with them in their mishaps; and after he found himself in a position to do favours with money, he seems to us to have recognized1 from the start that there is no kindness which men can show one another, with the same amount of expenditure, more acceptable than sharing meat and drink with them.
1 The nearest way to a man's heart
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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- LSJ, εὐεργέτ-ημα
- LSJ, μετά-δοσις
- LSJ, προπονέω
- LSJ, σύνειμι
- LSJ, συνάχθομαι
- LSJ, συνήδομαι
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