of Meno as a disreputable, ambitious and dishonest youth, willing to commit any injustice for advancement, and immeasurably greedy for wealth, although some modern scholars read Xenophon as being set on attacking Meno's character, and are unsure what credence to give his descriptions.

Meno was only about twenty years old when he was given command of 1000 hoplites and 500 peltasts from Thessaly as hired by Aristippus to assist Cyrus the Younger