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[48] I leave you then," he added, "to the careful study of your parts: mine is to see, so far as in me lies, that our troops are provided with all they need, before we hold the council of war." NOTES C.1.

Cyrus' generosity: he is not cold, not incapable of soft pleasure, but too pre-occupied with greater things.

On the whole, if a hedonist, this type of man, a hedonist that = a stoic (cf.

Socrates, H.Sidgwick, also J.P.).
C1.4, init.

Well told: we feel the character of Araspas at once, as soon as he opens his lips.
C1.4, med.


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