At last he was driven out by the Eleans.

In the battle of Mantineia the Spartans and Athenians fought as allies, and Xenophon's two sons were in the battle; he had sent them to Athens as fellow-combatants from Sparta.

His banishment from Athens was repealed by change of times, but it does not appear that he returned to Athens.

He is said to have lived, and perhaps died, at Corinth, after he had been driven from his home at Scillus.
Xenophon was a philosophic man of action.

He could make his value felt in a council of war, take part in battle--one of his books is on the duties of a commander of cavalry--and show himself good sportsman in the hunting-field.