gs after the internecine party strife.

C4.9. This again is a district Xenophon is well acquainted with. Has he
one eye on the old insurrection against Persia, _tempore_ Histiaeus, and
another on the new arrangements, _tempore_ Antalcidas?

C4.12-13. Croesus and his bills of lading. Some humour. It also brings
out the archic man in opposition to the shop-keeper man of the mere
business type. But still the bills of lading are needed. Croesus only
doesn't "twig" the right persons to check. It's the opposition between
Despot and true Ruler.

C5.9. Cyrus has an idea, the nature of which we shall discover later.

C5.15. Belshazzar's feast, _vide_ Daniel, cf. Hdt. Why plural, "the
trenches"? Is Xenophon obscure? His obscurity is mostly this: he expects
his reader intelligently to follow him.

C5.32. Jars somewhat on our feelings, perhaps, in its thirst for
revenge: but cf. the feeling against the assassins of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Mr. Burke. [Written at the time of the Phoenix Park
murders.]

C5.37. Is a turning-point in the rise of the archic man (and yet hardly
yet, but at C5.58 we shall come to bodyguards and eunuchs). At this
highest pinnacle of {arkhe} Cyrus desires to furnish himself as befits
a king. It is an historical difficulty which Xenophon has to get over
or round, or is Xenophon himself in the same condemnation, so to speak?
Does he also desire his archic man to be got up in a manner befitting
royalty at a certain date? Consider.

C5.42-47. These sections pose the difficulty well, and it is a
difficulty, and no mistake.

C5.42 ff. Xenophon-Hellenic theory of life. The leisure to invite
one's own soul and see one's friends which is needed to make life worth
living, versus _negotia_, _negotia_, _negotia_. How far are we to be
consciously self-regarding? Cyrus versus Buddha. The Hellenic hero is
not equal to absolute non-self-regarding devotion to mere work. The
Buddha might be.

C5.48. Perhaps nothing is cleverer in the neat and skilful mosaic work
of this composition than the fitting-in here of Artabazus' personal view
with the--at last necessary--impersonal or public theory of leadership.
It is pretty also that Artabazus should at length get his reward, and
humorous that he doesn't, after all, get it in the old form.

C5.49 ff. He keenly remembers each tantalizing moment of approach and
separation. A splendid speech of the humorous type. Xenophon himself
must be credited with so much fun, and