Xenophon
The Education of Cyrus
Translated by H. G. Dakyns, revised by F. M. Stawell, 1914
What this is
A life of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian empire, written as a portrait of the ideal ruler: more novel than history, and read for two thousand years as a handbook on leadership. Cicero says Scipio Africanus never let it out of his hands.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.