The pathos of the situation and the _Eironeia_ at its maximum.
"Euripidean" touches throughout.
C3.16.

[This is bracketed in most editions, no doubt rightly, as an interpolation.

It was not translated in Mr.Dakyns' manuscript, but his marginal note is characteristic, and evidently he would have translated the section in a footnote.

It may be rendered thus: "It is said that a monument was raised above the eunuchs and is in existence to this day.
On the upper slab the names of the husband and the wife are written in Syrian letters, and below are three other slabs, inscribed 'To the chamberlains.'"] C3.16.Interesting, especially if of later insertion, and perhaps given the historical basis of the story in some monument on the Pactolus, known to Xenophon.

I wish a new Schliemann would find it.