pious, fond of sacrificing, and an expert in augury from the victims; and he made Socrates his exact model. He wrote some forty books in all, though the division into books is not always the same, namely : The Anabasis, with a preface to each separate book but not one to the whole work. Cyropaedia. Hellenica. Memorabilia. Symposium. Oeconomicus. On Horsemanship. On Hunting. On the Duty of a Cavalry General. A Defence of Socrates. On Revenues. Hieron or Of Tyranny. Agesilaus. The Constitutions of Athens and Sparta. Demetrius of Magnesia denies that the last of these works is by Xenophon. There is a tradition that he made Thucydides famous by publishing his history, which was unknown, and which he might have appropriated to his own use. By the sweetness of his narrative he earned the name of the Attic Muse. Hence he and Plato were jealous of each other, as will be stated in the chapter on Plato. There is an epigram of mine on him also ¢: Up the steep path to fame toiled Xenophon In that long march of glorious memories ;
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L184) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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