63/70 The man who utters it and the people whose heart and mind it emanates from must be of a high order; and in the _Memorabilia_ Socrates has this highest praise, that he studied to make himself and _all others also_ as good as possible. J. Here also I feel the mind of Xenophon shimmering under various lights. The _Cyropaedia_ is shot with Orientalism. Homeric Epicism--antique Hellenism and modern Hellenism are both there. |