he asks you where Cyrus is, tell the truth and
say I am on the frontier. And if he asks whether I am advancing myself,
tell the truth again and say that you do not know. And if he enquires
how many we are, bid him send some one with you to find out."

[32] Having so charged the messenger he sent him on forthwith, holding
this to be more courteous than to attack without warning. Then he drew
up his troops himself in the order best suited for marching, and, if
necessary, for fighting, and so set forth. The soldiers had orders that
not a soul was to be wronged, and if they met any Armenians they were
to bid them to have no fear, but open a market wherever they wished, and
sell meat or drink as they chose.

NOTES

C1.5. Is this historical, i.e. _quasi_-historical? Are any of the names
real or all invented to give verisimilitude?

C1.13. Any touch of the sycophancy of the future in it? As in modern
Germany, a touch of that involved in the system of royalty.

C1.15. The raw material is good, but not worked up. Important for
the conception of Hellenic democracy (cf. Sec. 17). Daring, courage,
virtue--there is no monopoly of these things.

C1.21. (Cf. below VIII. C2.5) Worthy of Adam Smith. Xenophon has bump of
economy strongly developed; he resembles J. P.[*] in that respect. The
economic methodism, the mosaic interbedding, the architectonic structure
of it all, a part and parcel of Xenophon's genius. Was Alexander's
army a highly-organised, spiritually and materially built-up, vitalised
machine of this sort? What light does Arrian, that younger Xenophon,
throw upon it?

[* "J. P." = John Percival, Bishop of Hereford (the writer of the
Introduction to this volume), at the time the notes were written
Headmaster of Clifton College.--F.M.S.]

C1.25. Camaraderie encouraged and developed through a sense of equality
and fraternity, the life _au grand jour_ in common, producing a common
consciousness (cf. Comte and J. P.; Epaminondas and the Sacred Band at
Thebes).

C2. Contrast of subject enlivening the style--light concrete as a foil
to the last drier abstract detail. Humorous also, with a dramatising
and development of the characters, Shakespeare-wise--Hystaspas, and the
rest. Aglaitadas, a type of educator we know well (cf. Eccles. "Cocker
not a child"), grim, dry person with no sense of humour. Xenophon's own
humour shines out.

C2.12. The term given to the two stories {eis tagathon}