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BOOK III
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The titles vary because sometimes the officers themselves are included in the squads and sometimes not.] C3.19.Nice touch, quoting his father as an authority.
C3.40.With garlands, like the Spartans.

Was it conceivably a Persian custom too?
C3.44.

Assyrian's speech; not a bad one, though platitudinous.
Xenophon's dramatic form is shown in the intellectual and emotional side of his characters, rather than by the diction in their mouths, is it not?
C3.51-52.

Most important for Xenophon, Educationalist.

Cyrus on the powerlessness of a speech to create valour in the soul of the untrained: there must be a physical, moral, and spiritual training there beforehand.


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