nts so originate?

C4.27, fin. A touch which gives the impression of real history: that is
the art of it.

C4.34. Almost autobiographical: the advantage of having a country
seat in the neighbourhood of a big town. Here we feel the MODERNISM
of XENOPHON. The passage which Stevenson chose for the motto to his
_Silverado Squatters_ would suit Xenophon very well (Cicero, De Off. I.
xx.). Xenophon || Alfred Tennyson. [Mr. Dakyns used the geometric sign
|| to indicate parallelism of any sort. The passage from Cicero might
be translated thus: "Some have lived in the country, content with the
happiness of home. These men have enjoyed all that kings could claim,
needing nothing, under the dominion of no man, untrammelled and in
freedom; for the free man lives as he chooses."]

C4.36. The wicked man as conceived in Hellenico-Xenophontine fashion,
charged with the spirit of meanness, envy, and hatred, which cannot
brook the existence of another better than itself.

C4.38. A nice touch: we learn to know Gadatas and Xenophon also, and the
Hellenic mind.

C5.10. Pathos well drawn: _vide_ Richard II. and Bolingbroke. Euripidean
quality.

C5.12. The archic man has got so far he can play the part of intercessor
between Cyaxares and his Medes. The discussion involves the whole
difficulty of suppression ("he must increase, but I must decrease" is
one solution, not touched here).

C5.34. Perhaps this is the very point which Xenophon, Philosopher,
wishes to bring out, the pseudo-archic man and the archic man
contrasted, but Xenophon, lover of man and artist, draws the situation
admirably and truthfully without any doctrinal purpose. It is
{anthropinon} human essentially, this jealousy and humiliation of
spirit.

C5.35. Cyrus' tone of voice and manner must have some compelling charm
in them: the dialectic debate is not pursued, but by a word and look the
archic man wins his way.

C5.36. Oriental and antique Hellenic, also _modern_, formalities. I can
imagine some of those crowned heads, emperors of Germany and Austria,
going through similar ceremonies, walking arm-in-arm, kissing on both
cheeks fraternally, etc.

C5.39-40. This reveals the incorrigible weakness of Cyaxares. He can
never hold his own against the archic man. As a matter of philosophic
"historising," probably Xenophon conceives the Median element as the
corrupting and sapping one in the Persian empire (_vide_ Epilogue), only
he to some extent justifies and excuses