g it seems to them to have won a great
victory. (16)

(10) Lit. "and further, wars there are, waged against
forcibly-subjected populations whether by free states"--e.g.
of Olynthus, "Hell." V. ii. 23, or Athens against her
"subject allies" during the Pel. war--"or by despotic
rules"--Jason of Pherae ("Hell." VI.) Al. "wars waged by
free states against free states, and wars waged by tyrants
against enslaved peoples."

(11) Does {o en tais polesi} = "the citizen"? So some commentators; or
(sub. {polemos}) = "the war among states" (see Hartman, op. cit.
p. 248)? in which case transl. "all the hardships involved in
international war come home to the tyrant also." The same
obscurity attaches to {oi en tais polesi} below (the commonly
adopted emend. of the MS. {oi sunontes polesi}) = "the citizens,"
or else = "international wars."

(12) "The pleasures incidental to warfare between states"; al. "the
sweets which citizens engaged in warfare as against rival states
can count upon."

(13) Reading {analambanousin}, or, if after Cobet, etc.,
{lambanousin}, transl. "what brilliant honour, what bright credit
they assume."

(14) "To have played his part in counsel." See "Anab." passim, and M.
Taine, "Essais de Critique," "Xenophon," p. 128.

(15) Lit. "they do not indulge in false additions, pretending to have
put more enemies to death than actually fell."

(16) Cf. "Hipparch," viii. 11; "Cyrop." VIII. iii. 25; "Thuc." i. 49.

But the tyrant, when he forebodes, or possibly perceives in actual fact,
some opposition brewing, and puts the suspects (17) to the sword, knows
he will not thereby promote the welfare of the state collectively. The
cold clear fact is, he will have fewer subjects to rule over. (18) How
can he show a cheerful countenance? (19) how magnify himself on his
achievement? On the contrary, his desire is to lessen the proportions
of what has taken place, as far as may be. He will apologise for what
he does, even in the doing of it, letting it appear that what he has
wrought at least was innocent; (20) so little does his conduct seem
noble even to himself. And when those he dreaded are safely in their
graves, he is not one whit more confident of spirit, but still more on
his guard than heretofore. That is the kind of war with which the tyrant
is beset from day to day continually, as I do prove. (21)

(17) See Hold. (crit. app