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674 MACHANJDAS.safest road on decamping next day ; <strong>and</strong> in what form <strong>the</strong>army should march ? 'In such studies <strong>and</strong> inquiries he had,<strong>from</strong> his early years, so frequently exercised his thoughts,that, on anything <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> kind occurring, no expedient thatcould be devised was new to him."Philopoemen had spent seven years in improving <strong>the</strong> condition<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> army, <strong>and</strong> had raised it far above <strong>the</strong> low ebb <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Greek discipline <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> day. When Machanidas, tyrant"".---'

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