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There is an epigram of mine on him alsoAnth. Pal. vii. 97.: Up the steep path to fame toiled Xenophon In that long march of glorious memories; In deeds of Greece, how bright his lesson shone! How fair was wisdom seen in Socrates!Or in plain prose: Not only for Cyrus’s sake did Xenophon go up to Persia, but because he sought the path which leads to the abode of Zeus. For, having shown that the great deeds of Greece are the outcome of his training, he recalled what a beautiful thing was the wisdom of Socrates. There is another on the circumstances of his deathAnth. Pal. vii. 98.: Albeit the countrymen of Cranaus and Cecrops condemned thee, Xenophon, to exile on account of thy friendship for Cyrus, yet hospitable Corinth welcomed thee, so well content with the delights of that city wast thou, and there didst resolve to take up thy rest.
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In other authorities I find the statement that he flourished, along with the other Socratics, in the 89th Olympiad,This would be 424-420 b.c., a date obviously absurd as the floruit for either Xenophon or Plato. and Istrus affirms that he was banished by a decree of Eubulus and recalled by a decree of the same man.
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There have been seven Xenophons: the first our subject himself; the second an Athenian, brother of Pythostratus, who wrote the Theseid, and himself the author, amongst other works, of a biography of Epaminondas and Pelopidas; the third a physician of Cos; the fourth the author of a history of Hannibal; the fifth an authority on legendary marvels; the sixth a sculptor, of Paros; the seventh a poet of the Old Comedy.
Chapter 7. AESCHINES (c. 400 B.C.)
