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May with his grandson on his knee, the duplicate of which was gone to New Zealand, with the Doctor's inscription, 'The modern Cyropaedia, Astyages confounded. There was Richard, very good, young and pretty; there was Ethel, exactly like the Doctor, 'only more so; there was Gertrude, like nobody, not even herself, and her brothers much in the same predicament, there was the latest of Mr.
In this habit he had been indulged, or rather encouraged, by his preceptress; but his simple questions, and his desire to have every word precisely explained, were far from amusing to one who was little accustomed to the difficulties and misapprehensions of a young reader. Herbert was reading a passage, which Mad. de Rosier had marked for him, in Xenophon's Cyropaedia.
But his "Cyropaedia," in which the history of Cyrus is the subject, although still used as a classic in colleges for the beauty of the style, has no value as a history, since the author merely adopted the current stories of his hero without sufficient investigation. Xenophon wrote a variety of treatises and dialogues, but his "Memorabilia" of Socrates is the most valuable.
He did not know how to converse with one who could not be answered by a play upon words, nor satisfied by an appeal to precedents, or the authority of numbers and of high names. Lord Chesterfield's style of conversation, and that of any of the personages in Xenophon's Cyropaedia, could not be more different, or less compatible, than the simplicity of Miss Montenero and the wit of Lord Mowbray.
APUD XENOPHONTEM: 'in Xenophon'; so in 79 where see n.; also 31 apud Homerum. See Cyropaedia, 8, 7, 6. CUM ... ESSET: 'though he was very old', the clause depends on the following words, not on the preceding. NEGAT: in Latin as in English the present tense is used in quotations from books. See below, 61.
In reality it is both a history and in some sort a romance; especially is it a collection of examples worthy of being followed, in the style of the Cyropaedia, our Juvenal of the fifteenth century, and a little like Fenelon's Telemaque. Now in it there occurs the address of one of the counts to those who rebelled against him and who were at his mercy.
Plato's "Timaeus," the first of the series, was written after the death of Socrates and the enslavement of the author's country. In this are described the institutions of the Island of Atlantis, the writer's ideal of a perfect commonwealth. Xenophon, in his "Cyropaedia," has also depicted an imaginary political society by overlaying with fiction historical traditions.
And I believe that in Society and Politics, when a great event is ready to be done, someone must come and do it do it, perhaps, half unwittingly, by some single rash act like that first fatal shot fired by an electric spark. But to return to Cyrus and his Persians. I know not whether the "Cyropaedia" is much read in your schools and universities.
They knit these tribes to them in loyalty and affection by that righteousness that truthfulness and justice for which Isaiah in his grandest lyric strains has made them illustrious to all time; which Xenophon has celebrated in like manner in that exquisite book of his the "Cyropaedia." The great Lydian kingdom of Croesus Asia Minor as we call it now goes down before them.
At that time I had read, under my father's tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and Ad Nicoclem.
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