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BOOK V
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Is this a novelty?
If not, what is the prototype?
Did the modern rights of non-combatants so originate?
C4.27, fin.

A touch which gives the impression of real history: that is the art of it.
C4.34.Almost autobiographical: the advantage of having a country seat in the neighbourhood of a big town.

Here we feel the MODERNISM of XENOPHON.

The passage which Stevenson chose for the motto to his _Silverado Squatters_ would suit Xenophon very well (Cicero, De Off.

I.
xx.).


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