1. Contrast the extravagant praise of H. G. Dakyns (‘Xenophon’, in E. Abbott (ed.), Hellenica (Rivingtons, 1880), pp. 379–80; see also H. G. Dakyns (trans.), The Works of Xenophon, vol. 3, part 1 (Macmillan, 1897), p. xlix)): ‘It is full of the Xenophontean limpidity, the little bells of alliteration, the graceful antithetic balance; the sweet sounds helping out the healthy sense, as of a fragrant air breathed upon us from fresh and well-worked fields…’