The dragon-fly must wing his flight in armour cased: that is the law of his development.

So Cyrus must be in the end an ideal "tyrannus," the one spoken of by Simonides the poet to Hiero [_vide_ the dialogue _Hiero_, and the notes thereto in Mr.Dakyns' translation, Vol.

III.].
C5.64.The faithfulness of the eunuch has its parallel in that of the old negro slave.
C5.67.These are the sort of fellows Xenophon would have chosen himself, I take it.

Again the historical basis has to be taken account of.
Xenophon has to explain to himself the existence of their body and how the archic man came to invent it.

Throughout we must compare the _Hiero_ for Xenophon's own political theory apart from his romantic and philosophical interest in Cyrus.
C5.69.Not a pleasant picture of subject and ruling race.Cf.