learned German know? Note the orderliness and economy of it all. Is it,
as far as the army goes, novel in any respect, do you suppose, or only
idealised Hellenic? Spartan?

C3.14. A slight (intentional?) aposiopesis. Did H. have to drive back
the great cavalry division of the enemy?

C3.17. How quickly the archic man passes on! Cf. J. P.

C3.19. Notice the part given to the Egyptians to play. Why? (Agesilaus
died on his last campaign in Egypt.)

C3.25. Is it dramatic to make Cyrus speak in this way as if he were
lecturing a class on strategics?

C3.30. The advantage even of sutlers and women. This
several-times-repeated remark surprises me. But no doubt the arrangement
would give the enemy pause, and waste his time in out-flanking
movements: viola tout, hgd. At Cunaxa, however, the Persian did get
behind the Greek camp. No prototype there, then. [Xenophon, _Anabasis_,
Bk. I. c. 10.]

C4.2. We are more and more enamoured of Pantheia.

C4.7. As delicate as any modern in the respect for wedded womanhood.

C4.13 ff. Notice how in this stirring and inspiriting speech Cyrus by
dealing with the Egyptians (the only unknown quantity) strikes a new
note and sets up a new motive, as it were, preparing us for the tragic
struggle which is to come, which will cost Abradatas and other good
men dear, not to speak of the brave Egyptians themselves (cf. Sudanese
Arabs). Also note Xenophon's enthusiasm in reference to the new arming
and the odds of encounter between cavalry and infantry (cf. Napier,
Forbes, etc.).

BOOK VII

[C.1] So they prayed to the gods and went to their place, and the
squires brought food and drink to Cyrus and his staff as they stood
round the sacrifice. And he took his breakfast where he stood, after
making the due offering, sharing what he had with all who needed it, and
he poured out the libation and prayed, and then drank, and his men with
him.

Then he supplicated Zeus, the god of his fathers, to be his leader and
helper in the fight, and so he mounted his horse and bade those about
him follow. [2] All his squires were equipped as he was, with scarlet
tunics, breastplates of bronze, and brazen helmets plumed with white,
short swords, and a lance of cornel-wood apiece. Their horses had
frontlets, chest-plates, and armour for their shoulders, all of bronze,
and the shoulder-pieces served as leg-guards for the riders. In one
thing only the arms of Cyrus differed from the rest: theirs was covere