Book 3
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About such a matter as this you are deliberating. Therefore, if you please, I urge you in God’s name, defer the matter, and first consider your preparation for it. For see what Hector says to Andromache, Retire rather, he says, into the house and weave: War is the work of men Of all indeed, but specially ’tis mine. II. vi. 490.
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So he was conscious of his own qualification, and knew her weakness.
To those who read and discuss for the sake of ostentation.
