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BOOK III
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Hellenic = Oriental, also in part perhaps.

Also, we know the Oriental through the medium of Greek to a great extent (cf.

Greek Testament, and earlier still LXX.).
C1.8, init.Cf.Joseph and his brethren for this hardening of his heart.
C1.11.Hellenic political ethics = modern in this matter, apart from modern theory of nationalism, i.e.right of nations to exist free.
C1.12.Quite after the manner of an advocate in a Greek law-court, but also Oriental (cf.

David and Nathan the seer).
C1.24.Fear of exile; autobiographical touch?
Is anything passing through the mind of Xenophon?
I dare say there is.

[Xenophon was banished from his native city of Athens because of his friendship with Sparta and with Cyrus the Younger.


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