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declining years of the excellence he had manifested in the 

 vigour of his youthful days on the coursing plain ; where, in 

 Arrian's own words of eulogy, TSTrapa-iv ^'S>j "ttots AaywoTj lip' ■^Xt^ 

 xi»5 avTYjpxYicev.^ 



Antiquity is almost silent relative to the personal history of 

 the younger Xenophon ; " and as an autobiographer, he seems 

 to have been desirous that nothing should be known of himself 

 or family ; but rather that his personal history should be 

 darkened under the doubtful celebrity of anonymous author- 

 ship, or merged in the somewhat arrogant assumption of a 

 fictitious and equivocal title. In the conclusion of the 12th 

 chapter of the 1st book of his History of Alexander's Anabasis, 

 he says that the number and magnitude of the exploits of the 

 son of Philip, were his inducement to record them, not deeming 

 himself altogether unworthy to transmit them to posterity. 

 Arrian. de Ex- '* But who I am," he continues, " that thus characterise my- 



ped. Alexand. i r- i i ^ ^ r r 



L. I. c. XII. sell, and what my name, (though lar from obscure,) it concerns 

 annotat. m loc. the reader but little to know. Neither would an account of my 

 family, my city, nor such offices as I have there borne, be of 

 any use to him. Be it sufficient for him to know, that an 

 ardent love of literature, in which I have constantly indulged 

 myself from youth, has been with me instead of family con- 

 nexion, and civic and magisterial honours. Wherefore I may 

 perhaps be little less worthy of a place among the most cele- 

 brated authors of Greece, than Alexander among her most 

 illustrious heroes." 



1. The practical courser will not deny to Honn6 the merit, which on his lord's 

 voucher, he is entitled to ; few greyhounds, even in their prime, in modern days, 

 could vie with their redoubted prototype and master four hares per diem. 



2. In addition to the authors already cited, or referred to, he is also mentioned by 

 Arnobius, towards the close of his second book. 



It is a truth worth recording, that, from Photius to Saint-Croix and Chaussard, 

 the last translator of Alexander's Anabasis, no writer has impugned his veracity and 

 honesty as au historian, nor his literary style as a scholar. 



