This is the old Cyrus.

It comes in touchingly here, this refrain of the old song, now an echo of the old life.
C3.14.Xenophon delights somewhat in this sort of scene.

It is a turning-point, a veritable moral peripety, though the decisive step was taken long ago.

What is Xenophon's intention with regard to it?
Has he any _parti pris_, for or against?
Does he wish us to draw conclusions?
Or does it correspond to a moral meeting of the waters in his own mind?
Here love of Spartan simplicity, and there of splendour and regality and monarchism?
He does not give a hint that the sapping of the system begins here, when the archic man ceases to depend on his own spiritual archic qualities and begins to eke out his dignity by artificial means and external shows of reverence.
C3.20.Is this worthy of the archic man?
It is a method, no doubt, of {arkhe}, but has it any spiritual "last" in it?
The incident of Daipharnes somewhat diverts our attention from the justice of the system in reference to the suitors.

On the whole, I think Xenophon can't get further.