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Xenophon's own humour shines out.
C2.12.The term given to the two stories {eis tagathon}.

T.E.B.[*] could do it, or Socrates, without dullness or seeming to preach.

There is a crispness in the voice which is anti-pedantic.
[* "T.

E.B." = T.E.Brown, the Manx poet, at that time a colleague of Mr.Dakyns at Clifton .-- F.M.S.] C2.19.Cyrus recognises the ideal principle of co-operation and collective ownership.

Xenophon, Economist, ahead of the moderns.
C2.26.


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