shelter should be assigned to every brigadier, and that it should be
large enough for the whole regiment he commanded; a regiment consisting
of 100 men. Thus they were encamped by regiments, and in the mere fact
of common quarters there was this advantage, Cyrus thought, for the
coming struggle, that the men saw they were all treated alike, and
therefore no one could pretend that he was slighted, and no one sink to
the confession that he was a worse man than his neighbours when it came
to facing the foe. Moreover the life in common would help the men to
know each other, and it is only by such knowledge, as a rule, that a
common conscience is engendered; those who live apart, unknowing and
unknown, seem far more apt for mischief, like those who skulk in the
dark. [26] Cyrus thought the common life would lead to the happiest
results in the discipline of the regiments. By this system all the
officers--brigadiers, company-captains, captains of the squads--could
keep their men in as perfect order as if they were marching before them
in single file. [27] Such precision in the ranks would do most to guard
against disorder and re-establish order if ever it were broken; just as
when timbers and stones have to be fitted together it is easy enough
to put them into place, wherever they chance to lie, provided only that
they are marked so as to leave no doubt where each belongs. [28] And
finally, he felt, there was the fact that those who live together are
the less likely to desert one another; even the wild animals, Cyrus
knew, who are reared together suffer terribly from loneliness when they
are severed from each other.

[29] There was a further matter, to which he gave much care; he wished
no man to take his meal at morning or at night till he had sweated for
it. He would lead the men out to hunt, or invent games for them, or
if there was work to be done, he would so conduct it that they did not
leave it without sweat. He believed this regimen gave them zest for
their food, was good for their health, and increased their powers of
toil; and the toil itself was a blessed means for making the men more
gentle towards each other; just as horses that work together grow
gentle, and will stand quietly side by side. Moreover the knowledge of
having gone through a common training would increase tenfold the courage
with which they met the foe.

[30] Cyrus had his own quarters built to hold all the guests he might
think it well to entertai