This chapter might have been a separate work appended to the _Memorabilia_ on Polemics or Archics ["Science of War" and "Science of Rule"].
C6.3-6.

Sounds like some Socratic counsel; the righteous man's conception of prayer and the part he must himself play.
C6.7.Personal virtue and domestic economy a sufficiently hard task, let alone that still graver task, the art of grinding masses of men 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 Sec.Sec.

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.