nst? Does he wish us to draw conclusions?
Or does it correspond to a moral meeting of the waters in his own mind?
Here love of Spartan simplicity, and there of splendour and regality
and monarchism? He does not give a hint that the sapping of the system
begins here, when the archic man ceases to depend on his own spiritual
archic qualities and begins to eke out his dignity by artificial means
and external shows of reverence.

C3.20. Is this worthy of the archic man? It is a method, no doubt,
of {arkhe}, but has it any spiritual "last" in it? The incident of
Daipharnes somewhat diverts our attention from the justice of the system
in reference to the suitors. On the whole, I think Xenophon can't get
further. He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their)
aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up,
provided it is attached to moral greatness. We are in the same maze, I
fancy. Jesus was not, nor is Walt Whitman.

C3.23. Cyrus is made to behave rather like the autocratic father of a
goody story-book.

C3.25. Realistic and vivid detailing: our curiosity is satisfied. "Who
has won?" we ask. "Oh, so-and-so, Smith." Well, it's something to know
that Smith has won. Xenophon, the artist, 'cutely introduces the Sakian
to us. One scene takes up another, just as in real life. Quite soon
we know a great deal more about this young man, a mere Sakian private
soldier, who wins the race so easily on his splendid horse. Cyrus
and good fortune introduce him to the very man he is suited to: viz.
Pheraulas.

C3.37. Pheraulas' boyhood has already been sketched by himself (II.
C3.7), the active sturdy little youngster, snatching at a knife, and
hacking away _con amore_. We know him well: Xenophon's modernism comes
out in these things. Here we have the old father, a heart of oak, like
the old Acharnian in Aristophanes. One of the prettiest morsels in all
Xenophon. Xenophon's own father, is he there?

C3.47. The desire for "leisure" is as strong in Xenophon as in hgd. or
S. T. I., I think. [S. T. Irwin, also a master at Clifton.]

C4.1. Why is the Hyrcanian never named? Is it conceivable that Xenophon
shrinks from using a proper name except when he has some feeling for the
sound of the language? (Sic. Sakians, Cadousians, Indians, etc.)

C4.4 The "mark" system again which Xenophon believes in, but hgd. not.
Shows how he tried to foster competitiveness. It's after all a belief
in the central sun, a