dlike man,' which
they apply to those whom they expressively admire--so, too, brutality is
a type of character rarely found among men" (Robert Williams).

[7] Reading {etheloponia tis}, or if {philoponia}, transl. "just as
some strange delight in labour may quicken in the heart of many an
individual soldier." See "Anab." IV. vii. 11.

Happy must that leader be whose followers are thus attached to him:
beyond all others he will prove a stout and strong commander. And by
strong, I mean, not one so hale of body as to tower above the stoutest
of the soldiery themselves; no, nor him whose skill to hurl a javelin
or shoot an arrow will outshine the skilfullest; nor yet that mounted
on the fleetest charger it shall be his to bear the brunt of danger
foremost amid the knightliest horsemen, the nimblest of light infantry.
No, not these, but who is able to implant a firm persuasion in the minds
of all his soldiers: follow him they must and will through fire, if need
be, or into the jaws of death. [8]

[8] Or, "through flood and fire or other desperate strait." Cf.
"Anab." II. vi. 8.

Lofty of soul and large of judgment [9] may he be designated justly, at
whose back there steps a multitude stirred by his sole sentiment; not
unreasonably may he be said to march "with a mighty arm," [10] to whose
will a thousand willing hands are prompt to minister; a great man in
every deed he is who can achieve great ends by resolution rather than
brute force.

[9] See "Ages." ix. 6, "of how lofty a sentiment."

[10] See Herod. vii. 20, 157; Thuc. iii. 96.

So, too, within the field of private industry, the person in authority,
be it the bailiff, be it the overseer, [11] provided he is able to
produce unflinching energy, intense and eager, for the work, belongs
to those who haste to overtake good things [12] and reap great plenty.
Should the master (he proceeded), being a man possessed of so
much power, Socrates, to injure the bad workman and reward the
zealous--should he suddenly appear, and should his appearance in the
labour field produce no visible effect upon his workpeople, I cannot say
I envy or admire him. But if the sight of him is followed by a stir
of movement, if there come upon [13] each labourer fresh spirit, with
mutual rivalry and keen ambition, drawing out the finest qualities of
each, [14] of him I should say, Behold a man of kingly disposition.
And this, if I mistake not, is the quality of greatest import