C1.35. Cyrus drives home the conscience of indebtedness _à la_ Portia v. Shylock. N.B.--Humorous also and an Oriental tinge. C1.38. One can't help thinking of Socrates and the people of Athens here. If so, this is a quasi-apology for the Athenian _bons pères de famille_ who condemned Socrates. Beautiful story of the sophist teacher's last injunction to Tigranes. C1.40-41. What smiles after tears! Like a sunny day succeeding clouds and blackness. A pretty story this, of the wife of Tigranes. _Xenophon's women:_ this one, Pantheia, Croesus' wife, the wife of Ischomachus (_Economist_), the daughter of Gobryas. C2.12. Archaeologically interesting. N.B.--Humanity towards wounded, Hellenic. Xenophon's own strategy in the _Anabasis_ is probably the prototype. C2.15. For Hellenic and Xenophontine religiousness. The incalculableness of human life: God fulfils himself in many unforeseen ways. N.B.--Irony also of the situation, since Cyrus doesn't intend the Armenian to triumph over the Chaldaean in the way he anticipates. C2.20. Note how Socratically it is made to work itself out. C3. Cyrus, the Archic Man, the "born ruler," is also the diplomatic man (cf., no doubt, Gladstone), a diplomacy based on organic economic sense and friendly-naturedness. C3.10. Xenophon's theory of fraternity in action, all petty jealousies brushed aside. [C3.11. The "captains-of-twelve" and the "captains-of-six" are the same officers as those called elsewhere "captains-of-ten" and "captains-of-five" (cf. above Bk. II. C2.21 note). The titles vary because sometimes the officers themselves are included in the squads and sometimes not.] C3.19. Nice touch, quoting his father as an authority. C3.40. With garlands, like the Spartans. Was it conceivably a Persian custom too? C3.44. Assyrian's speech; not a bad one, though platitudinous. Xenophon's dramatic form is shown in the intellectual and emotional side of his characters, rather than by the diction in their mouths, is it not? C3.51-52. Most important for Xenophon, Educationalist. Cyrus on the powerlessness of a speech to create valour in the soul of the untrained: there must be a physical, moral, and spiritual training there beforehand. The speech is in Xenophon's best earnest rhetorical style. C3.57. The march into battle, _vide_ Milton. A beautiful bit of word-painting. C3.58. Cf. the Prussian army singing a hymn [in 1870]. BOOK IV [C.1] Cyrus waited, with his troops as they were, long enough to show that he was ready to do battle again if the enemy would come out; but as they did not stir he drew the soldiers off as far as he thought well, and there encamped. He had guards posted and scouts sent forward, and then he gathered his warriors round him and spoke to them as follows: