I.pp.lvii., lxx., xc., cxiii., cxxxi.; Vol.III.Part I.pp.
v.-vii.) it is plain the translator considered that the historical romance of the _Cyropaedia_ was written in Xenophon's old age (completed _circa_ 365 B.C.) embodying many of his own experiences and his maturest thoughts on education, on government, on the type of man,--a rare type, alone fitted for leadership.

The figure of his hero, Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire, known to him by story and legend, is modelled on the Spartan king Agesilaus, whom he loved and admired, and under whom he served in Persia and in Greece (op.cit.Vol.II., see under _Agesilaus_, Index, and _Hellenica_, Bks.

III.-V.

_Agesilaus_, _an Encomium_, passim).

Certain traits are also taken from the younger Cyrus, whom Xenophon followed in his famous march against his brother, the Persian king, up from the coast of Asia Minor into the heart of Babylonia (see the _Anabasis_, Bk.