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Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus (3.2)

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Pelopidas, however, was somewhat excusable, because, excited as he always was by an opportunity for battle, he was now carried away by a generous anger to seek revenge. For the best thing is that a general should be victorious and keep his life,

but if he must die,
he should
conclude his life with valour,
as Euripides says; for then he does not suffer death, but rather achieves it.

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