Prototype probably Agesilaus and the younger Cyrus at the supper-table, with just this touch of coarseness.
C4.32-36.

This is = to the Comtist theory of the duties of capitalists, and is one of the noblest disquisitions in all Xenophon, {os g' emoi dokei}.

Cyrus' theory is based on fraternal feeling among the _elite_ of the world, and that is the sole difference, a large one doubtless, and measures the gap between Xenophon and A.C.and our advance in Democracy.
C5.17.How far is this historical, i.e.semi-historical?
I can't help supposing that the commoner notion of a conquest of Media by Persia was current and familiar to Xenophon apart from any other account, which for his present purpose he chose to go upon and possibly believed in.
C5.18-20.

Will Cyrus take her to wife, his old playmate?
All this shows once more Xenophon's love of children.
C5.23-25.

The Persian Magna Charta, parallel to that between the Spartan king and the ephorate.
C6.1-3.