It is thoroughly Hellenic, or Xenophon-Socratic, this feeling, "Give me a chance to show my virtue." (But has Cyrus a touch of superhuman conscious rectitude ?) C2.12.The same thought again: it is full of delicacy and spiritual discernment: the more one ponders it the more one feels that.
C2.12, fin.

For Hellenic or Xenophontine or old-world theory of the misfortunes which befall the virtuous, _vide_ Homer, _vide_ Book of Job (Satan), _vide_ Tragedians.
C2.15.Cf.

the _Economist_ for praise of rural simplicity.

It is Xenophon _ipsissimus_.
C2.17.Whose bad manners is Xenophon thinking of?
Thebans'?
C2.20, fin.

A very noble sentence.