59/72 [86] And here too let us educate our sons, if sons are born to us. We cannot but become better ourselves if we strive to set the best example we can to our children, and our children could hardly grow up to be unworthy, even if they wished, when they see nothing base before them, and hear nothing shameful, but live in the practice of all that is beautiful and good." NOTES C1. Notice the epic tone now adopted, or rather swum into, or rather which floats the writer up of its own motion. On the whole this description of the battle is, for Xenophon, obscure. |