Single file for each company.
Third position--Eight columns.

Double files.
Fourth position--Sixteen columns.

Quadruple files.
C C C C C C C X X X -> X X X X -> X X X X X X X X X -> X X X X X X X X X X X X C X X X X] C4.15.Cyaxares means to kidnap them, doesn't he?
That is not quite Cyrus' method.

If so, it contrasts Cyaxares and Cyrus again.
C4.17.Cyaxares the old fox improves upon the plan.
C4.30, init.

It is these touches which give the thrilling subjective feeling to the writings of Xenophon, or, rather, thus his nerves tingle, just as the external touches give a sense of objective health (e.g.
above, C1.29).
C4.32.All this is entirely modern, never yet excelled, I imagine..