3.7
As soon as they reach the highest point looking down on the Theatre opposite,The Theatre of Dionysus, facing them as they come westwards from the Lyceum. I think it would clearly be useful if you displayed your men’s ability to gallop downhill in fairly large companies.
3.8
To be sure, I know well enough that, if they feel confident of their ability to gallop, they will welcome the opportunity of showing off their skill: but you must see that they are not short of practice, or the enemy will compel them to do it against their will.
3.9
The formation that would add most to the beauty of the exercises at the inspectionsThe allusion is not to the inspection of recruits by the Council, but to the manoeuvres enumerated in 3.l. The formation is that proposed in 2. has already been explained. Provided his horse is strong enough, the leader should ride round with the file that is on the outside every time. He will be galloping all the time himself, and the file whose turn it is to be on the outside with him will also be galloping. Thus the eyes of the Council will always be on the galloping file, and the horses will get a breathing space, resting by turns.As it is not known precisely what evolutions took place at the displays, it is impossible to make out what changes Xenophon proposes.
3.10
When the Hippodrome is the scene of the display, the right plan would be that the men should first be drawn up on a front broad enough to fill the Hippodrome with horses and drive out the people standing there.
