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μεμαθηκώς: “after finishing his course.”—Ὅμηρος κτλ.: the passage is in Γ 169, 170, where Priam says of Agamemnon καλὸν δ᾽ οὕτω ἐγὼν οὔπω ἴδον ὀφθαλμοῖσιν | οὐδ̓ οὕτω γεραρόν: βασιλῆι γὰρ ἀνδρὶ ἔοικεν. γεραρόν: stately. οὔτε στρατηγός: before these words οὔτε κιθαριστής might be expected; prob. omitted as inappropriate to οὐδ᾽ ἐὰν αἱρεθῃ.
Xenophon: Memorabilia. Josiah Renick Smith. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1903.
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