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Volume VIII of the "Ancient Classics for English Readers" series, the books of which series are useful as a preliminary acquaintance to readers that wish to read the ancient texts for the first time and also a nice interpretation of them for readers that are already acquainted with them.

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Ancient Classics for English Readers
edited by the
REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.

XENOPHON

The Volumes published of this Series contain

HOMER: THE ILIAD, by the Editor.

HOMER: THE ODYSSEY, by the Same.

HERODOTUS, by George C. Swayne, M.A.

CÆSAR, by Anthony Trollope.

VIRGIL, by the Editor.

HORACE, by Theodore Martin.

ÆSCHYLUS, by Reginald S. Copleston, M.A.

XENOPHON, by Sir Alex. Grant, Bart., LL.D.

CICERO, by the Editor.

SOPHOCLES, by Clifton W. Collins, M.A.

PLINY, by A. Church, M.A., and W. J. Brodribb, M.A.

EURIPIDES, by William Bodham Donne.

JUVENAL, by Edward Walford, M.A.

ARISTOPHANES, by the Editor.

HESIOD, by James Davies, M.A.

PLAUTUS AND TERENCE, by the Editor.

The following Authors, by various Contributors, are in preparation:—

OtherTACITUS.
OtherLUCIAN.
OtherGALEN.
OtherHIPPOCRATES.

Others will follow.

A Volume will be published Quarterly, price 2s. 6d.

XENOPHON

BY

SIR ALEXANDER GRANT, Bart., LL.D.
PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXXI

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAP. VIII.	NOTICES OF THE LIFE OF XENOPHON PREVIOUS TO THE EXPEDITION OF CYRUS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
CHAP. „ VIII.	THE EXPEDITION OF CYRUS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	10
CHAP. „ VIII.	THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS TO THE SHORE OF THE EUXINE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	27
CHAP. „ IIIV.	THE SUBSEQUENT FORTUNES OF THE TEN THOUSAND, AND NOTICES OF THE LATER LIFE OF XENOPHON, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	56
CHAP. „ IIIV.	XENOPHON'S 'RECOLLECTIONS OF SOCRATES,' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	87
CHAP. „ IIVI.	HIS 'EDUCATION OF CYRUS,' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	123
CHAP. „ IVII.	THE MINOR WORKS OF XENOPHON, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	149
CONCLUSION, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		172

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