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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67704	Kyrou paideia, or, The institution and life of Cyrus the Great written by that famous philosopher and general, Xenophon of Athens, and from the original Greek made English, the first four books by Francis Digby ..., the four last by John Norris.	Xenophon.; Digby, Francis.; Norris, John, 1657-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing X10; ESTC R30212	245,110	427

ΚΤΡΟΤ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ OR THE Institution and LIFE OF CYRUS the GREAT WRITTEN By that famous Philosopher and General Xenophon of Athens And from the Original Greek made English The first four Books By Francis Digby late of Queens Colledge in Oxford The four last by John Norris Fellow of All-Souls Coll. Oxford Medus ademit Assyrio Medoque tulit moderamina Perses Claud. de laud. Stilic LONDON Printed for Matthew Gilliflower at the Spread Eagle in Westminster-Hall and James Norris at the Kings-Arms without Temple-Bar 1685. Printed for Matt Gilliflower James Norris To the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Ailesbury and Elgin Vicount Bruce of Ampthill Baron Bruce of Wharlton Skelton and Kinloss Lord of the Honour of Ampthill High steward of Leicester Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the Counties of Bedford and Huntington and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. MY LORD THE Presumption would be too great should I offer a Work of less esteem than this of Xenophon's to a Person of your Lordship's Quality and Honou●… But as all Ages past have given a●… Universal Testimony of their valu●… for this Wise Book so I hav●… reason to believe all to come wi●… as generally approve my Choice 〈◊〉 your Lordship for its Patron Fo●… who so fit to desend the Cyru●… that was design'd a Pattern fo●… Princes and Great men to imi●…tate as one so remarkably emi●…nent for Loyalty Whose Descent is from a Race of Kings whose Education has been agree able to so high a Birth and wha●… is yet more rare whose Virtue fully answer both This I may say without being suspected for flattery that no one has made a●… nearer approach than your Lord●…hip to this Character of Perfecti●…n in general and that none has qualled your Lordship in that articular Part which consists in Candour and Forgiveness 'T is his my Lord which has hard●…ed me to the boldness of this Ad●…ress which I hope your Lord●…hip will Pardon from My Lord Your Lordships most Obedient and most Humble Servant M. Gilliflower THE PREFACE THE Author of this Incomparable Piece for which all Antiquity has justly had so great a Value was Xenophon of Athens a Man no less famous in an Active than in a Contemplative Life and perhaps the only Person upon Record whose Words and Actions so highly adorn'd the Philosophy he profess'd He was born in Ercheja an Athenian Town belonging to the Tribe Aegeis so called from Aegeus immediate Successor to Pandion King of Athens Tho the time of his Birth be no where expresly declared yet by comparing Stesiclides in Laertius who says he dy'd the first Year of the 105 Olympiad with Lucian who affirms he out-liv'd 90 Years 't is manifest He must have been born in or before the first year of the 82 Olympiad His Father's Name was Gryllus which Name continu'd in the Family for several Generations He laid the Foundation of his after-Greatness in the School of Socrates the then celebrated Philosopher of Greece and whom the Delphick Oracle had pronounc'd the wisest of Men. Of him our Author was a great Admirer and a ●…rudious Imitator whose religious Deportment towards the Gods whose Constancy Temperance and Resolution he carefully transcrib'd in the whole Conduct of his Life How much he honour'd him appears by that elegant Defence he made for him before his Judges tho in truth Socrates's Vertues were his best Apology where he boldly taxes and smartly refutes the malicious Calumnies of Anytus and Melitus his inveterate and false Accusers He was the first that committed to Writing the Precepts and Memoirs of his Master which he has perform'd with such Accurateness and Fidelity that therein you may read the very Sense and Soul of Socrates The same thing indeed was afterwards done among others by his Fellow-Pupil Plato but he has every where intermixt so many Excursions of his own that it is not easie to distinguish the Master from his Scholar Nor was Socrates less sollicitous for his beloved Xenophon as will appear by this one Instance In that memorable Peloponnesian War betwixt the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians they were both personally engag'd in the Fight before Delium where the Athenians being worsted and flying before the Baeotians Xenophon then but very young was overthrown and unhors'd in the Flight which Socrates perceiving took him up and carry'd off upon his Shoulders till the Enemy gave over their Pursuit His second Military Effort was his famous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the younger Cyrus against his Brother Artaxerxes I know some very Learned Men affirm he had never seen the Wars before this Persian Expedition but this I suppose is meant of Foreign Wars because Greece being at that time and having been for many Years before the Seat and School of Martial Discipline 't is highly probable that a young Gentleman of his Generosity and Courage would not be altogether unacquainted therewith This War he engag'd himself in at the earnest Sollicitations of his dear Friend Proxenus the Baeotian once a Scholar to that fam'd Orator and Philosopher Gorgias the Leontine but now residing at Cyrus's Court at Sardis in Lydia Thither went Xenophon having first consulted his Master Socrates and then the Oracle at Delphos Arriving at Sardis he found Cyrus ready for his March who entertain'd him with all imaginable Expressions of Friendship and held him in no less Esteem than he did Proxenus himself However he then accepted of no Command but follow'd the Army as a Voluntier In this Expedition Cyrus was slain and the Grecian Camp being rifled by the Enemy they lost all they had except their Arms. These when Phalinus in the King's Name came to demand and that they should submit themselves to his Mercy Xenophon was the Man that gave him this smart Answer We have now Sir but two things left us our Arms and our Valour if we yield up one how shall we make use of the other Think not therefore that we intend to part with our Arms with which we are resolv'd to manage a Dispute with you To him Phalinus smilingly reply'd Young Gentleman you talk like a Philosopher and have made a very pretty Speech but you are mightily mistaken if you think your Arms or Valour can withstand the Power of the great King Thus meanly did this haughty Courtier think of Xenophon And yet this was he who afterwards when all the Captains and Commanders were basely betray'd and treacherously murther'd with admirable Skill and invincible Patience conducted ten thousand Foot through the midst of the Provinces of Persia from Babylon to Greece over precipitous Mountains deep Rivers by streight and almost unpassable Ways to the Amazement of the World even in despight of the Power and Malice of the Enemy This unparallell'd Retreat so encourag'd the Grecians and betray'd the Weakness and Degeneracy of the Persians that thereupon they began to bethink themselves of invading and subverting that