ltimate, for there is the final
{khairete} [good-bye] and message to his wife. Why was she not present?
I suppose she was at home in Babylon.

[C8. It has been doubted whether C8 is by Xenophon at all. C8.3, with
its reference to the _Anabasis_, certainly looks as though it might have
been written after his death. Some scholars have also thought the style
unlike Xenophon's, but it is clear from his marginal notes that Mr.
Dakyns did not lean towards this view. To stress the degeneracy of the
Persians is, no doubt, to make a curious comment on the institutions of
"the born ruler," but on the other hand the preceding chapter (C7) is
full of grave warnings, and, throughout, Xenophon has been at pains to
insist that everything depends on the continuous and united effort of
the ruling classes towards virtue and self-control. Again, as Mr. Dakyns
pointed out (in his _Sketch of Xenophon's Life_, Works, Vol. I. p.
cxxxvii.), the epilogue bears a marked analogy to the account of Spartan
degeneracy in c. xiv. of the _Laconian Polity_ (see Vol. II. p. 322), a
chapter he took to be genuine. On the whole, therefore, we may conclude
that he would have considered this epilogue to be genuine also.--F.M.S.]

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