Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Xenophon
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into virtue.
C6.8, fin. The false theory of ruling in vogue in Media: the /plus/ of ease instead of the /plus/ of foresight and danger-loving endurance. Cf. Walt Whitman. C6.30. Is like the logical remark of a disputant in a Socratic dialogue of the Alcibiades type, and ÃÃ 31-33 a Socratic /mythos/ to escape from the dilemma; the breakdown of this ideal /plus/ and /minus/ righteousness due to the hardness of men's hearts and their feeble intellects. C6.31. Who is this ancient teacher or who is his prototype if he is an ideal being? A sort of Socrates-Lycurgus? Or is Xenophon thinking of the Spartan Crypteia? C6.34. For /pleonexia/ and deceit in war, vide /Hipparch/., c. 5 [tr. Works, Vol. III. Part II. p. 20]. Interesting and Hellenic, I think, the mere raising of this sort of question; it might be done nowadays, perhaps, with advantage /or/ disadvantage, less cant and more plain brutality. C6.39. Hunting devices applied: throws light on the date of the /Cyropaedia/, after the Scilluntine days, probably. [After Xenophon was exiled from Athens, his Spartan friends gave him a house and farm at Scillus, a township in the Peloponnese, not far from Olympia. See /Sketch of Xenophon's Life/, Works, Vol. I., p. cxxvi.] C6.41, init. Colloquial exaggerated turn of phrase; almost "you could wipe them off the earth." |
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