Xenophon's Machiavellianism.

Does it work?
C2.17-28.

It seems to me that all this is too elaborate for an interpolator: it smacks of Xenophon in his arm-chair, theorising and half-dreaming over his political philosophy.
C3.2.Prototype, a procession to Eleusis or elsewhere: the Panathenaic, possibly.

Xenophon's sumptuous taste and love of bright colours.
C3.3, fin., C3.4.What a curious prototypic sound! Truly this is the very _modus_ of the evangelist's type of sentence.

His narrative must run in this mould.
C3.4, fin.