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Perhaps also Xenophon and his.
One seems to hear his own voice addressing Gryllus.
C7.14.A very noble passage.
C7.27.

That's also nice: "Summon the Persians to rejoice with me at my joyous release;" a refined form of funeral festival--"nothing is here for tears"-- nor have we, perhaps, arrived beyond it.
C7.28.His last remark is Xenophon-Hellenic, but less edifying; fortunately it is only the penultimate, for there is the final {khairete} [good-bye] and message to his wife.

Why was she not present?
I suppose she was at home in Babylon.
[C8.

It has been doubted whether C8 is by Xenophon at all.

C8.3, with its reference to the _Anabasis_, certainly looks as though it might have been written after his death.


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