OF ARRIAK. , 61 



After the brief sketch which I have given of the writings of 

 the younger Xenophon, it must strike every one that he was 

 influenced in the choice of his subjects as an author, by a 

 recollection of what had engaged the literary attention of his 

 celebrated namesake ; and that while writing under the same 

 personal appellative, he probably proposed to imitate the mat- 

 ter and style of composition of his prototype — Io-p(^vof t^v fgaaiv, Phot. Eclog. 

 xa) /x.i/*r]T^j cug uKr^^ws Ssvo^aovTog. ca. 



Under this view of his works we have the dissertations of 

 Epictetus from the pen of his most renowned follower, the 

 Bithynian Xenophon, and the Memorabilia of Socrates from 

 that of the son of Gryllus, the most eminent disciple of the 

 Socratic school : the Anabasis of Alexander for that of Cyrus, 

 with the same distribution of the work into seven books, and 

 the same title. The Hellenica of Xenophon gave birth to the 

 Parthica and Bithynica of Arrian : and in imitation of the 

 Essay on Hunting, our pseudo-Xenophon has left us his 

 Observations on Coursing. 



Upon their general similarity of character in active life I 

 have already remarked, and shall only observe farther, that, 

 as far as we can judge from the scanty personal anecdotes 

 which have survived of the younger, for comparison with those 

 of the elder philosopher, this similarity appears to have extended 

 to the frame and composition of their minds. Many of the 

 same excellencies, and respectable weaknesses of character, 

 co-existed in both ; the same patient and unerring virtue — the 

 same kind and generous feeling — the same credulous and 

 enthusiastic regard to celestial admonitions — 9re*9oj*eyouj repixea-a-i 

 Qioov' — with a proportionate degree of the purest heathen piety. 



If it be stigmatised with the title of superstitious credulity 

 in the priest of Ceres, that he supposed himself led by divine 

 inspiration to write the history of a man, ovhv) uXXco avfipwTrcov De Expedit. 



, , . .....*. Alexandri L. 



eojxwf, I would plead his enthusiastic admiration of his hero in vn. c. xxx. 



