C4.8. Reads like a biographical incident in some hunt of Xenophon, boy or father.
C4.9-10. The rapidity, one topic introducing and taken up by another, wave upon wave, {anerithmon lelasma} ("the multitudinous laughter of the sea").
C4.12. The truth of this due to sympathy (cf. Archidamus and his father Agesilaus, Hell., V. c. iv.; tr. Works, Vol. II. p. 126).
C4.22. Cyaxares recalls John Gilpin.
C4.24. An Hellenic trait; madness of battle-rage, {menis}. Something of the fierceness of the Iliad here.
C5.7. Cyrus. His first speech as a general; a fine one; a spirit of athleticism breathes through it. Cf. Memorabilia for a similar rationalisation of virtuous self-restraint (e.g. Mem., Bk. I. c. 5, 6; Bk. III. c. 8). Paleyan somewhat, perhaps Socratic, not devoid of common sense. What is the end and aim of our training? Not only for an earthly aim, but for a high spiritual reward, all this toil.
C5.10. This is Dakyns.
C5.11. "Up, Guards, and at 'em!"
C6. This chapter might have been a separate work appended to the Memorabilia on Polemics or Archics ("Science of War" and "Science of Rule").
C6.3-6. Sounds like some Socratic counsel; the righteous man's conception of prayer and the part he must himself play.