44).]

C2.4. Qy. Were these tribal customs of the Persians, as doubtless of
the Dorians, or is it all a Dorian idealisation?

C2.13. Good specimen of the "annotative" style with a parenthetic
comment. The passage in brackets might be a gloss, but is it?

C3.3. When did Xenophon himself first learn to ride? Surely this is a
boyish reminiscence, full of sympathy with boy-nature.

C3.12. Beautiful description of a child subject to his parents,
growing in stature and favour with God and man.

C4.2. Perhaps his own grandson, Xenophon the son of Grylus, is the
prototype, and Xenophon himself a sort of ancient Victor Hugo in this
matter of fondness for children.

C4.3. Contrast Autolycus in the /Symposium/, who had, however, reached
the more silent age [e.g. /Symp/., c. iii., fin. tr. Works, Vol. III.
Part I. p. 309].

C4.4. The touch about the puppy an instance of Xenophon's {katharotes}
[clear simplicity of style].

C4.8. Reads like a biographical incident in some hunt of Xenophon, boy
or father.

C4.9-10. The rapidity, one topic introducing and taken up by another,
wave upon wave, {anerithmon lelasma} ["the multitudinous laughter of