Here the question forces itself in the midst of all this "ironic" waiting on the part of the Persians in Spartan durance for a future apotheosis of splendour and luxuriance,--what is the moral?
"Hunger now and thirst, for ye shall be filled"-- is that it?
Well, anyhow it's parallel to the modern popular Christianity, reward-in-heaven theory, only on a less high level, but exactly the same logicality.
C5.6.A point, this reward to the catcher, and this rigid _couvrefeu_ habit (cf.

modern military law).
C5.8.A dramatic contrast, the Median Cyaxares who follows Pleasure, and the Persian Cyrus who follows Valour, _vide_ Heracles' choice [_Memorabilia_, II.i.

21].

This allegorising tendency is engrained in Xenophon: it is his view of life; one of the best things he got from Socrates, no doubt.

Later (Sec.