Cyropaedia Author:Xenophon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the money, asked me, ' Child,' said you, ' did this man, to whom you carry this remuneration, ever, amongst the qualifications of a general, mention anything of ... more »military economy to you ? for soldiers in an army,' you observed, ' are not less in want of necessary supplies, than domestics in a family;' and when, telling you the truth, I said that he had not made the least mention of it, you asked me again, ' Whether he had said anything to me concerning the health and strength of the men ? as a general ought to attend to these things, as well as to the conduct of troops in the field.' 13. When 1 answered this question in the negative, you again asked me, ' Whether he had taught me any arts by which my allies1 might be rendered excellent at their several military duties?' and when I said ' No' to this too, you inquired again, ' Whether he had given me any instruction how I might put spirit into an army ?' for you said, ' that, in every undertaking, spirit differed in the greatest possible degree from despondency.' When I answered this too in the negative, you inquired again, ' Whether he had said anything to instruct me about obedience in an army, and how a commander might best contrive to produce it.' 14. When this also appeared to have been entirely omitted, you at last inquired of me, ' what then he had taught me, that he should say that he had taught me the art of commanding an army ?' I then replied that ' he had taught me tactics ;' when you, laughing, remarked to me, recapitulating each particular that you had mentioned, what benefit could there be to an army from tactics without provisions, or without health, or without a knowledge of the arts invented for conducting a war,2 or without obedience ? When you had thus made it evident to me, that tactics were but a small part of ...« less