Xenophon
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 34 instances of Xenophon in 21 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Xenophon in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 5.
The Dangerous Hour of Parley But I am surprised by how accepting Xenophon is of this, both in the words and the various deeds of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 42.
On Pedantry In that excellent institution that Xenophon attributes to the Persians, we find that they taught their children virtue, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 43.
On Pedantry at once sharpened their understanding, and learned what was right. Astyages, in Xenophon, asks Cyrus to give an account of his last lesson; and thus …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 45.
On Pedantry did they value the loss of their country’s education. When Agesilaus courted Xenophon to send his children to Sparta to be bred, “it is not,” …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 25.
On the Education of Children for, if he embrace the opinions of Xenophon and Plato, by his own reason, they will no more be theirs, but …
- Book 1 · Chapter 39 · ¶ 1.
A Consideration on Cicero trade it was thereby to get his living? If the acts of Xenophon and Caesar had not far transcended their eloquence, I scarce believe they would …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 40.
On the Inequality among Us But King Hiero in Xenophon says further, that in the fruition even of pleasure itself they are …
- Book 1 · Chapter 45 · ¶ 3.
On the Battle of Dreux In that bloody battle betwixt Agesilaus and the Boeotians, which Xenophon, who was present at it, reports to be the sharpest that he …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 11.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment his estate and whole inheritance to defend; which is the reason, says Xenophon, why those of Asia carried their wives and concubines, with their choicest …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 8.
On War Horses We read in Xenophon a law forbidding any one who was master of a horse to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 11.
On War Horses so great concern as life and honor. You stake (whatever Chrysanthes in Xenophon says to the contrary) your valor and your fortune upon that of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 26.
On War Horses to be mounted upon large mules, for the greatest dignity and grandeur. Xenophon tells us, that the Assyrians were fain to keep their horses fettered …
- Book 1 · Chapter 56 · ¶ 25.
On Prayers There is, as I remember, a passage in Xenophon where he tells us that we ought so much the more seldom …
- Book 2 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 1.
Business Can Wait If this good man be yet living, I would recommend to him Xenophon, to do as much by that; ’tis a much more easy task …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 330.
Apology for Raymond Sebond moreover, those which have been received by ancient institution in every republic. Xenophon reports a like perplexity in Socrates’s doctrine; one while that men are …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 433.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Socrates in Xenophon, concerning this affair, says of Anaxagoras, reputed by antiquity learned above all …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 22.
On Presumption this outward bark; but I likewise know that the greatest masters, and Xenophon and Plato are often seen to stoop to this low and popular …
- Book 2 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 1.
On Calling Out Lies imitation, and whose life and opinions may serve for example: Caesar and Xenophon had a just and solid foundation whereon to found their narrations, the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 21 · ¶ 3.
Against Laziness is said by some, also, of the Lacedaemonian young men, and which Xenophon says of the Persian), forasmuch as he conceived that exercise, continual labor, and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 17.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch triumphs, with those of Agesilaus? “I do not believe,” says he, “that Xenophon himself, if he were now living, though he were allowed to write …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 1.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War certain books in particular esteem, as Alexander the Great, Homer; Scipio Africanus, Xenophon; Marcus Brutus, Polybius; Charles V, Philippe de Commines; and ’tis said that, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 3.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War that was current in his army; following the advice of Cyrus in Xenophon, forasmuch as the deception is not of so great importance to find …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 27.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War According to the saying of Cyrus in Xenophon, “’Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 17.
On Diversion Xenophon was sacrificing with a crown upon his head when one came to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 18.
On Diversion become supportable;❦ and the same wound, the same fatigue, is not, says Xenophon, so intolerable to a general of an army as to a common …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 281.
On Some Verses of Virgil Xenophon lays it for an objection and an accusation against Menon, that he …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 20.
On the Art of Discussion then you who win. I am of opinion that, in Plato and Xenophon, Socrates disputes more in favor of the disputants than in favor of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 7.
On Vanity devout in good than in evil fortune, according to the precept of Xenophon, if not according to his reason; and am more ready to turn …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 125.
On Vanity of luxury, made ventilators where they wanted them, and planted shades, as Xenophon reports they did. I love rain, and to dabble in the dirt, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 186.
On Vanity of temperance and at the same time lessons in love and wantonness; Xenophon, in the very bosom of Clinias, wrote against the Aristippic virtue. ’Tis …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 205.
On Vanity civil innocence is measured according to times and places. Imagine this in Xenophon, related as a fine commendation of Agesilaus: that, being entreated by a …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 33.
On Experience than the execution of this ordinance; and Socrates minutely verifies it in Xenophon. The difficulties and obscurity are not discerned in any science but by …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 115.
On Experience know about this, but there are wonderful instances of it that Socrates, Xenophon, and Aristotle, men of irreproachable authority, relate. Historians say that the Atlantes …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 150.
On Experience arms. It was he who in the Delian battle, raised and saved Xenophon when fallen from his horse; and who, among all the people of …