it. Cf. _Memorabilia_ for a similar
rationalisation of virtuous self-restraint (e.g. _Mem_., Bk. I. c. 5, 6;
Bk. III. c. 8). Paleyan somewhat, perhaps Socratic, not devoid of common
sense. What is the end and aim of our training? Not only for an earthly
aim, but for a high spiritual reward, all this toil.

C5.10. This is Dakyns.

C5.11. "Up, Guards, and at 'em!"

C6. This chapter might have been a separate work appended to the
_Memorabilia_ on Polemics or Archics ["Science of War" and "Science of
Rule"].

C6.3-6. Sounds like some Socratic counsel; the righteous man's
conception of prayer and the part he must himself play.

C6.7. Personal virtue and domestic economy a sufficiently hard task,
let alone that still graver task, the art of grinding masses of men into
virtue.

C6.8, fin. The false theory of ruling in vogue in Media: the _plus_ of
ease instead of the _plus_ of foresight and danger-loving endurance. Cf.
Walt Whitman.

C6.30. Is like the logical remark of a disputant in a Socratic dialogue
of the Alcibiades type, and Sec.Sec. 31-33 a Socratic _mythos_ to escape
from the dilemma; the breakdown of this ideal _plus_ and _minus_
righteousness due to the hardness of men's hearts and their feeble
intellects.

C6.31. Who is this ancient teacher or who is his prototype if he is an
ideal being? A sort of Socrates-Lycurgus? Or is Xenophon thinking of the
Spartan Crypteia?

C6.34. For _pleonexia_ and deceit in war, vide _Hipparch_., c. 5 [tr.
Works, Vol. III. Part II. p. 20]. Interesting and Hellenic, I think,
the mere raising of this sort of question; it might be done nowadays,
perhaps, with advantage _or_ disadvantage, less cant and more plain
brutality.

C6.39. Hunting devices applied: throws light on the date of the
_Cyropaedia_, after the Scilluntine days, probably. [After Xenophon was
exiled from Athens, his Spartan friends gave him a house and farm
at Scillus, a township in the Peloponnese, not far from Olympia. See
_Sketch of Xenophon's Life_, Works, Vol. I., p. cxxvi.]

C6.41, init. Colloquial exaggerated turn of phrase; almost "you could
wipe them off the earth."

BOOK II

[C.1] Thus they talked together, and thus they journeyed on until they
reached the frontier, and there a good omen met them: an eagle swept
into view on the right, and went before them as though to lead the way,
and they prayed the gods and heroes of the land to show them favour and
grant them safe entry, and then they