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0t SklU f letterS and therefore knew n t how 

 (30) And here it were fit to leave this point, touching the 

 concurrence of military virtue and learning (for what example 

 should come with any grace after those two of Alexander and 



$$1^ T 6 lt n0t in / egard f the rareness of circumstance, 

 that I find m one other particular, as that which did so 

 suddenly pass from extreme scorn to extreme wonder : and it 

 is of Xenophpn the philosopher, who went from Socrates 

 KiW A?t ASla m *p e ^ dition ^ Cyrus the younger against 

 King Artaxerxes This Xenophon at that time was very 

 young, and never had seen the wars before, neither had any 

 command m the army, but only followed the war as a voluntary! 

 for the love and conversation of Proxenus, his friend. He wls 

 present when Falinus came in message from the great king to 

 the Grecians, after that Cyrus was slain in the field, and they 

 a handful of men, left to themselves in the midst of the SSi 

 territories, cut off from their country by many navigable 

 rivers and many hundred miles. The message ^tedtS 

 they should deliver up their arms and submit themselves to 



dl e P r, mg f S S erCy T W i ich meSSage before answer ** 

 divers of the army conferred familiarly with Falinus and 



amongst the rest Xenophon happened to say, Why? FaKnus 



vi e rtuT e fl TJ bUt ^r tW thlngS left r arms and our 

 virtue ; and it we yield up our arms, how shall we make use 

 of our virtue ? Whereto Falinus, smiling on him, said &quot; If I 

 be not deceived young gentleman, you are an Athenian and I 

 believe you study philosophy, and it is pretty that you sav 

 but you are much abused if you think your Virtue dn S- 

 stand the kings power.&quot; Here was the scorn; the wonder 

 followed : which was that this young scholar or philosopher! 



ducLf U C ? tai ^ W6re ^ nurdered in P^ley by treason/ con 

 ducted those ten thousand foot, through the heart of all the 

 king s high countries, from Babylon to&quot; Grecia in safety, in 

 despite of all the king s forces, to the astonishment of the 

 S andth \ eilc . oura gement of the Grecians in times sue- 

 ceedmg to make invasion upon the kings of Persia as was 

 after purposed by Jason the Thessalian, attempted by Agesillus 

 the Spartan, and achieved by Alexander the Macedonian, all 



P VTTT n g ^ nd f the act f tha * y un scholar - 



v ill. m To proceed now from imperial and military virtue 

 o moral and private virtue ; first, it is an assured truth, which 

 is contained in the verses : 



&quot; Scilicet ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes 

 Emollit mores nee siuit esse feros.&quot; 



