of Pantheia.

C1.50. Irony: the chariots that are to cost Abradatas his life
hereafter. Is this tale "historic" at all? I mean, did Xenophon find
or hear any such story current? What is the relation, if any, to it of
Xenophon Ephesius, Antheia, and Abrocomas? [_Xenophon Ephesius_, a late
writer of romances.] Had that writer any echo of the names in his head?
What language are "Pantheia" and "Abradatas"?

C1.52. All very well, but the author hasn't told us anything about the
construction of these {mekhanai}, these battering engines, before, to
prepare us for this. Is that a slip, or how explainable? I think he
is betrayed into the description by reason of his interest in such
strategic matters. The expression is intelligible enough to any one
who knows about engines, just as we might speak of the butt or the
stanchion, or whatever it be.

C2.1-3. The Medians bring back the bread that was cast upon the waters.
Cyrus turns this gain to new account. He sacrifices the present natural
gain, i.e. the wealth, to the harder spiritual gain, viz., their
positive as opposed to their merely negative alliance. Cyrus _is_ the
archic man.

C2.4. I have a sort of idea, or feeling that here the writer takes up
his pen afresh after a certain interval. C4-6 are a reduplication, not
unnatural indeed, but _pro tanto_ tautological.

C2.7. Semi-historical basis. Prototype, when Agesilaus meditated the
advance on Persia, just before his recall. [See _Hellenica_, III. iv.,
Works II. p. 29.]

C2.13 foll. The archic man can by a word of his mouth still the flutter
and incipient heave of terror-stricken hearts.

C2.15-18. A review of the improvements amounting to a complete
revolution in arms and attack effected by Cyrus. This is imagined as an
ideal accompaniment to the archic man and conqueror. Xenophon nowadays
on the relative advantages of the bayonet and the sword, cavalry and
infantry, etc., would have been very interesting. Cf. a writer like
Forbes.

[C2.19. "Syrians." The word is used loosely, including the Assyrians
and their kindred. See below C.22. "Syria" = Assyria and the adjacent
country.]

C2.21, fin. Xenophon has more than once witnessed this clouding of the
brow, the scowl or sulk of the less stalwart moral-fibred men (notably
in _Hellenica_).

C2.26 ff. How to give up wine: the art in it. Now listen, all you
blue-ribbonists! Xenophon, Hygienist.

C2.37. One would like to know how the price was regulated. Does any