The Dream of Xenophon

Xenophon offered sacrifice to King Zeus, the very god that the Oracle at Delphi had prescribed for him. And it was likewise from this god, as he believed, and we told that story in book three, I believe. This is the dream he had the day after they lost Cyrus with the lightning on the house of his father and so on. He recalled that when he was setting out from Ephesus to be introduced to Cyrus, an eagle screamed upon his right. It was sitting, however, and the soothsayer who was conducting him said that while the omen was one suited to the great rather than to an ordinary person,. While it betokened glory, it