[Cyropaedia by Xenophon]@TWC D-Link bookCyropaedia BOOK VII 64/72
hgd. C4.
Semi-historical? The version is to be found, I think, in C4.2, which is the _piece justicative_.
The episode itself is full of humour, as good as a play: Xenophon has seen these duplicities often.
Brer Fox outwitted by Brer Rabbit. C4.4.Can these rival fastnesses of the Carians be identified? All this country is well known to Xenophon (_vide Hellenica_, III.c.4, etc.). C4.6.Beautiful renewal of the peaceful arts, festivals, and merry-makings after the internecine party strife. C4.9.This again is a district Xenophon is well acquainted with.
Has he one eye on the old insurrection against Persia, _tempore_ Histiaeus, and another on the new arrangements, _tempore_ Antalcidas? C4.12-13.
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