Euripidean quality.
C5.12.The archic man has got so far he can play the part of intercessor between Cyaxares and his Medes.

The discussion involves the whole difficulty of suppression ("he must increase, but I must decrease" is one solution, not touched here).
C5.34.Perhaps this is the very point which Xenophon, Philosopher, wishes to bring out, the pseudo-archic man and the archic man contrasted, but Xenophon, lover of man and artist, draws the situation admirably and truthfully without any doctrinal purpose.

It is {anthropinon} human essentially, this jealousy and humiliation of spirit.
C5.35.

Cyrus' tone of voice and manner must have some compelling charm in them: the dialectic debate is not pursued, but by a word and look the archic man wins his way.
C5.36.Oriental and antique Hellenic, also _modern_, formalities.

I can imagine some of those crowned heads, emperors of Germany and Austria, going through similar ceremonies, walking arm-in-arm, kissing on both cheeks fraternally, etc.
C5.39-40.