[Cyropaedia by Xenophon]@TWC D-Link bookCyropaedia BOOK V 66/70
It comes from energy combined with high gifts of organisation, economic, architectonic. C3.19.Nice, I think, this contrasting of spiritual and natural productiveness. C3.32.Here is the rule of conduct clearly expressed, nor do I see how a military age could frame for itself any other.
Christianity only emerged _sub pace Romana_, which for fraternal brotherhood was the fullness of time; and even in the commercial age the nations tumble back practically into the old system. C3.36 ff.
An army on forced march: are there any novelties here? C3.53.These minute details probably not boring at the time, but interesting rather, perhaps useful. C4.13.Cyrus resembles Fawcett in his unselfish self-estimate.
Gadatas is like the British public, or hgd. C4.16.Here we feel that the Assyrian is not a mere weakling: he can play his part well enough if he gets a good chance.
It needs an Archic and Strategic Man to overpower him. C4.17.ANCIENT and MODERN parallelism in treatment of wounded. C4.24.Hellenic war ethics: non-combatant tillers of the soil to be let alone.
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