garrison it."

Moreover, the governors appointed to preside over these two departments
of state are not one and the same. But one class governs the inhabitants
proper including the workers of the soil, and collects the tribute from
them, another is in command of the armed garrisons. If the commandant
[9] protects the country insufficiently, the civil governor of the
population, who is in charge also of the productive works, lodges
accusation against the commandant to the effect that the inhabitants
are prevented working through deficiency of protection. Or if again, in
spite of peace being secured to the works of the land by the military
governor, the civil authority still presents a territory sparse in
population and untilled, it is the commandant's turn to accuse the
civil ruler. For you may take it as a rule, a population tilling their
territory badly will fail to support their garrisons and be quite
unequal to paying their tribute. Where a satrap is appointed he has
charge of both departments. [10]

[9] Or, "garrison commandant." Lit. "Phrourarch."

[10] The passage reads like a gloss. See about the Satrap, "Hell."
III. i. 10; "Cyrop." VIII. vi. 1; "Anab." I. ix. 29 foll.

Thereupon Critobulus: Well, Socrates (said he), if such is his conduct,
I admit that the great king does pay attention to agriculture no less
than to military affairs.

And besides all this (proceeded Socrates), nowhere among the various
countries which he inhabits or visits does he fail to make it his first
care that there shall be orchards and gardens, parks and "paradises,"
as they are called, full of all fair and noble products which the earth
brings forth; and within these chiefly he spends his days, when the
season of the year permits.

Crit. To be sure, Socrates, it is a natural and necessary conclusion
that when the king himself spends so large a portion of his time there,
his paradises should be furnished to perfection with trees and all else
beautiful that earth brings forth.

Soc. And some say, Critobulus, that when the king gives gifts, he
summons in the first place those who have shown themselves brave
warriors, since all the ploughing in the world were but small gain in
the absence of those who should protect the fields; and next to these
he summons those who have stocked their countries best and rendered them
productive, on the principle that but for the tillers of the soil the
warriors themselves could scarcely live.