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 The Works of Xenophon by H. G. Dakyns, Macmillan and Co., 1897.
-====== Hiero, or The Tyrant: Xenophon ======
+====== Xenophon: Hiero, or The Tyrant ======
 ===== A Discourse on Despotic Rule =====
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 Or let a sick man be attended with a like solicitude by both. It is plain, the kind attentions of the mighty potentate (9) arouse in the patient's heart immense delight. (10)
- (9) "Their mightinesses," or as we might say, "their serene
+ (9) "Their mightinesses," or as we might say, "their serene highnesses." Cf. Thuc. ii. 65.
-  highnesses." Cf. Thuc. ii. 65.
  (10) "The greatest jubilance."
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 Or say, they are the givers of two gifts which shall be like in all respects. It is plain enough in this case also that "the gracious favour" of his royal highness, even if halved, would more than counterbalance the whole value of the commoner's "donation." (11)
- (11) Or, "half the great man's 'bounty' more than outweighs the small
+ (11) Or, "half the great man's 'bounty' more than outweighs the small man's present." For {dorema} cf. Aristot. "N. E." I. ix. 2, "happiness... a free gift of God to men."
-  man's present." For {dorema} cf. Aristot. "N. E." I. ix. 2,
-  "happiness... a free gift of God to men."
 Nay, as it seems to me, an honour from the gods, a grace divine, is shed about the path of him the hero-ruler. (12) Not only does command itself ennoble manhood, but we gaze on him with other eyes and find the fair within him yet more fair who is to-day a prince and was but yesterday a private citizen. (13) Again, it is a prouder satisfaction doubtless to hold debate with those who are preferred to us in honour than with people on an equal footing with ourselves.
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 First, the palace: do you imagine that a building, beautified in every way at an enormous cost, will afford you greater pride and ornament than a whole city ringed with walls and battlements, whose furniture consists of temples and pillared porticoes, (2) harbours, market-places?
- (2) Reading {parastasi}, properly "pillasters" (Poll. i. 76. 10. 25) =
+ (2) Reading {parastasi}, properly "pillasters" (Poll. i. 76. 10. 25) = "antae," hence "templum in antis" (see Vitruv. iii. 2. 2); or more widely the entrance of a temple or other building. (Possibly the author is thinking of "the Propylea").Cf. Eur. "Phoen." 415; "I. T." 1159. = {stathmoi}, Herod. i. 179; Hom. "Il." xiv. 167; "Od." vii. 89, {stathmoi d' argureoi en khalkeo estasan oudio}.
- "antae," hence "templum in antis" (see Vitruv. iii. 2. 2); or more
-  widely the entrance of a temple or other building. (Possibly the
-  author is thinking of "the Propylea").Cf. Eur. "Phoen." 415; "I.
- T." 1159. = {stathmoi}, Herod. i. 179; Hom. "Il." xiv. 167; "Od."
- vii. 89, {stathmoi d' argureoi en khalkeo estasan oudio}.
         The brazen thresholds both sides did enfold
         Silver pilasters, hung with gates of gold (Chapman).
- Al. {pastasi}, = colonnades.
+Al. {pastasi}, = colonnades.
 Next, as to armaments: Will you present a greater terror to the foe if you appear furnished yourself from head to foot with bright emlazonrie and horrent arms; (3) or rather by reason of the warlike aspect of a whole city perfectly equipped?
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  (13) Al. "It shall be yours to be happy and yet to escape envy." The
-    concluding sentence is gnomic in character and metrical in form.
+ concluding sentence is gnomic in character and metrical in form.
-    See "Pol. Lac." xv. 9.
+ See "Pol. Lac." xv. 9.