The Hellenic hero is not equal to absolute non-self-regarding devotion to mere work.

The Buddha might be.
C5.48.Perhaps nothing is cleverer in the neat and skilful mosaic work of this composition than the fitting-in here of Artabazus' personal view with the--at last necessary--impersonal or public theory of leadership.
It is pretty also that Artabazus should at length get his reward, and humorous that he doesn't, after all, get it in the old form.
C5.49 ff.

He keenly remembers each tantalizing moment of approach and separation.

A splendid speech of the humorous type.

Xenophon himself must be credited with so much fun, and real fun it is.
C5.56 ff.