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sink within him to see the orderly arrangements of the different arms:
[8] here heavy infantry and cavalry, and there again light infantry,
there archers and there slingers, following each their leaders, with
orderly precision. As they tramp onwards thus in order, though they
number many myriads, yet even so they move on and on in quiet progress,
stepping like one man, and the place just vacated in front is filled up
on the instant from the rear.

[8] "Different styles of troops drawn up in separate divisions:
hoplites, cavalry, and peltasts, archers, and slingers."

"Or picture a trireme, crammed choke-full of mariners; for what reason
is she so terror-striking an object to her enemies, and a sight so
gladsome to the eyes of friends? is it not that the gallant ship sails
so swiftly? And why is it that, for all their crowding, the ship's
company [9] cause each other no distress? Simply that there, as you may
see them, they sit in order; in order bend to the oar; in order recover
the stroke; in order step on board; in order disembark. But disorder
is, it seems to me, precisely as though a man who is a husbandman should
stow away [10] together in one place wheat and barley and pulse, and
by and by when he has need of barley meal, or wheaten flour, or some
condiment of pulse, [11] then he must pick and choose instead of laying
his hand on each thing separately sorted for use.

[9] See Thuc. iii. 77. 2.

[10] "Should shoot into one place."

[11] "Vegetable stock," "kitchen." See Holden ad loc., and Prof.
Mahaffy, "Old Greek Life," p. 31.

"And so with you too, my wife, if you would avoid this confusion, if you
would fain know how to administer our goods, so as to lay your finger
readily on this or that as you may need, or if I ask you for anything,
graciously to give it me: let us, I say, select and assign [12] the
appropriate place for each set of things. This shall be the place where
we will put the things; and we will instruct the housekeeper that she is
to take them out thence, and mind to put them back again there; and
in this way we shall know whether they are safe or not. If anything is
gone, the gaping space will cry out as if it asked for something back.
[13] The mere look and aspect of things will argue what wants mending;
[14] and the fact of knowing where each thing is will be like having it
put into one's hand at once to use without further trouble or debate."

[12] {dokimasometha}, "we