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Excerpt from Hellenics of Xenophon, Books I. And II: The d104 Revised With Notes, Critical and Explanatory Analysis, Indices and Map
From the frequent notices of later historians we may with certainty gather that there existed a work of Xenophon amongst them treating of Greek History from the period at which the pen of Thucydides was laid down; and the opening words of the Hellenics prove nothing to the contrary. Grote' indeed writes that to pass from Thucydides to the Hellenica of Xenophon is a descent truly mournful and yet when we look at Grecian history as a whole, we have great reason to rejoice that even so inferior a work as the latter has reached us. We miss, it is true, the elaborate research and power of narrative in Xeno phon's continuation of his predecessor's story; the absence, on the other hand, of anything like philo sophical or legendary digression, even if the narrative becomes thereby somewhat over-plain and simple, yet imparts to the successive details a close and practical connexion.
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