40/43 _Xenophon's women:_ this one, Pantheia, Croesus' wife, the wife of Ischomachus (_Economist_), the daughter of Gobryas. N.B .-- Humanity towards wounded, Hellenic. Xenophon's own strategy in the _Anabasis_ is probably the prototype. The incalculableness of human life: God fulfils himself in many unforeseen ways. N.B .-- Irony also of the situation, since Cyrus doesn't intend the Armenian to triumph over the Chaldaean in the way he anticipates. |