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Yet when Callias, son of Charias, asked the general Iphicrates, Cf.Moralia, 99 e, 187 b. Who are you? Bowman, targeteer, horseman, or hoplite? Iphicrates replied, None of these, but the one who commands them all. Ridiculous, therefore, is the man who declares that the art of using the bow, or of fighting in heavy armour, or of manipulating the sling, or of riding a horse may be taught, but that the art of commanding and leading an army comes as it chances and to whom it chances without previous instruction! Surely he is yet more ridiculous who affirms that prudence alone cannot be taught, for without prudence there can be no gain or profit from the other arts. But if prudence is in command, the principle which orders all the arts, which assigns each person to a place of usefulness,There is, perhaps, a lacuna at this point, as indicated by Pohlenz, who supplies how, then, must one not pay even more heed to prudence than to the other arts? what joy, for instance, can one have at a banquet, though the servants are welltrained and have learned to Carve the meat and roast it well and pour the wine,Homer, Od. xv., 323. if there be no system nor order in the servitors?Possibly a large part of the essay is missing.
