It is an historical difficulty which Xenophon has to get over or round, or is Xenophon himself in the same condemnation, so to speak?
Does he also desire his archic man to be got up in a manner befitting royalty at a certain date?
Consider.
C5.42-47.

These sections pose the difficulty well, and it is a difficulty, and no mistake.
C5.42 ff.

Xenophon-Hellenic theory of life.

The leisure to invite one's own soul and see one's friends which is needed to make life worth living, versus _negotia_, _negotia_, _negotia_.

How far are we to be consciously self-regarding?
Cyrus versus Buddha.