Spartan simplicity and Eastern quaintness both say their say.

In this passage the biblical element seems almost audible.
C3.7.This is in the grand style, Oriental, dilatory, ponderous, savouring of times when battles were affairs of private arrangement between monarchs and hedged about by all the punctilios of an affair of honour.
C3.12.

N.B .-- The archic man shows a very ready wit and inventiveness in the great art of "grab" in war, though as he said to his father he was "a late learner" in such matters.Cf.in modern times the duties of a detective or some such disagreeable office.

G.O.Trevelyan as Irish secretary.

Interesting for _war ethics_ in the abstract, and for Xenophon's view, which is probably Hellenic.