πρῶτον μέν: corresponds to μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα 3. εἰς τὸ ἐθελῆσαι ἀκούειν: “in order to make him willing to hear,” the purpose of λέξας. For εἰς with the articular inf., cf. εἰς τὸ φοβεῖσθαι An. vii.8.20 κατέσχεν (sc. αὐτόν): he checked him. ἡμῖν: ethical dative. G. 1171; H. 770. εἴπερ τι καὶ ἄλλο (sc. ἐστίν): so in iv. 3. 14. Cf. also Cyr. iii. 3. 42. ἐν ἀνθρώποις: in the world. Cf. εὖ ἴσθι, πάντων τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις κάλλιστον καὶ μακαριώτατον κτῆμα κεκτήσῃ Hiero xi. 15. Θεμιστοκλῆς: see on ii.6.13; iv. 2. 2. περίβλεπτος: ‘the observed of all observers.’
Xenophon: Memorabilia. Josiah Renick Smith. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1903.
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