a general attacking an enemy will scheme to bring about, when he deals
out gifts to the brave and castigation[20] to those who are
disorderly.

[18] Lit. "But again, husbandry trains up her scholars side by side in
lessons of . . ."

[19] {sun anthropois}, "man with his fellow-man," is the "mot d'order"
(cf. the author's favourite {sun theois}); "united human effort."

[20] "Lashes," "punishment." Cf. "Anab." II. vi. 10, of Clearchus.

Nor will there be lacking seasons of exhortation, the general
haranguing his troops and the husbandman his labourers; nor because
they are slaves do they less than free men need the lure of hope and
happy expectation,[21] that they may willingly stand to their posts.

[21] "The lure of happy prospects." See "Horsmanship," iii. 1.

It was an excellent saying of his who named husbandry "the mother and
nurse of all the arts," for while agriculture prospers all other arts
like are vigorous and strong, but where the land is forced to remain
desert,[22] the spring that feeds the other arts is dried up; they
dwindle, I had almost said, one and all, by land and sea.

[22] Or, "lie waste and barren as the blown sea-sand."

These utterances drew from Critobulus a comment:

Socrates (he said), for my part I agree with all you say; only, one