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When, before I became acquainted with Feuerbach, I flung my books aside, wearied or angered, I often seized in the middle of the night my monster Poem of the World, my tragedy of Panthea and Abradatus, or some other poetical work, and did not retire till the wick of the lamp burned out at three in the morning.
They serve to give a more distinct idea of the Cyropædia of Xenophon than any general description could afford. The book is a drama, of which the principal elements are such narratives as the story of Panthea, and such conversations as those contained in this chapter, intermingled with long discussions on the principles of government, and on the discipline and management of armies.
"There's no secret; any of your own fathers could tell you what you want to hear from me. Listen then. When I was young, I used to amuse myself with women, but I laughed at the idea of love. It occurred, however, that Panthea, the most beautiful of all women, fell into our hands, and Cyrus gave her into my charge, because I had always boasted that my heart was invulnerable.
"Then do so confidently for the thirteenth," said the slave. "In the camp and in the kitchen I can talk about my people as much as I like. But you tell me, what do you call the little dog that Panthea made a scarlet cloak for?" "We called it Kallista," cried Antinous wiping his eyes with the back of his hand. "My father would not allow it but we persuaded my mother.
"I knew a little girl who when I took her on my shoulder would stretch out her arms and exclaim, 'I am so tall! She fancied that she was taller than I then, and yet was only little Panthea." "But in her own conception of herself, it was she who was tall, and that decides the issue, for to each of us a thing is only that which it seems to us.
The driver then closed the door by which Abradates had mounted, so that Panthea was separated from her husband, though she could still see him as he stood in his place. She gazed upon him with a countenance full of affection and solicitude. She kissed the margin of the chariot as it began to move away. She walked along after it as it went, as if, after all, she could not bear the separation.
Cyrus's kindness to Panthea. She is inconsolable. Panthea kills herself on the dead body of her husband. In the preceding chapters of this work, we have followed mainly the authority of Herodotus, except, indeed, in the account of the visit of Cyrus to his grandfather in his childhood, which is taken from Xenophon.
"Then do so confidently for the thirteenth," said the slave. "In the camp and in the kitchen I can talk about my people as much as I like. But you tell me, what do you call the little dog that Panthea made a scarlet cloak for?" "We called it Kallista," cried Antinous wiping his eyes with the back of his hand. "My father would not allow it but we persuaded my mother.
Xenophon's romantic tales. Panthea a Susian captive. Valuable spoil. Its division. Share of Cyrus. Panthea given to Cyrus. Araspes. Abradates. Account of Panthea's capture. Her great loveliness. Attempts at consolation. Panthea's renewed grief. Cyrus declines to see Panthea. His reasons. Araspes's self-confidence. Panthea's patience and gentleness. Araspes's kindness to Panthea.
"One deplorable instance should not bias you against an entire class, and the beautiful constancy of Panthea ought to neutralize the example of a hundred Anastasia Chalmers. Is it not unfortunate that poor human nature so tenaciously recollects all the evil records, and is so oblivious of the noble acts furnished by history?
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