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Pàgina 142 - On this Chirisophus and Xenophon, with Callimachus of Parrhasia, one of the captains, advanced, (for the last had the command that day of the captains in XEN. VOL. i. K the rear,) all the rest of the officers standing out of danger. Then about seventy of the men advanced under the trees, not in a body but one by one, each sheltering himself as well as he could ; while...
Pàgina 132 - Upon this, such of the rear-guard as were well, rising up, rushed upon them; while those who were tired, shouted out as loud as they could, and struck their shields with their pikes. The enemy, alarmed at this, threw themselves into the valley through the snow, and were no more heard of. Then Xenophon, with the rest of the forces, went away, assuring the sick men, that, the next day some people should be sent to them: but before they had gone four stadia, they found others taking their rest in the...
Pàgina 20 - The country was a plain throughout, as even as the sea, and full of wormwood; and if any other kind of shrubs or reeds grew there, they had all an aromatic smell, but no trees could be seen. Bustards and ostriches, antelopes and wild asses, appeared to be the only inhabitants of the desert; and the fatigues of the march were alleviated by the amusements of the chase.
Pàgina 79 - ... they were distant from Greece above ten thousand stadia, without a guide to conduct them, and their road thither intercepted by impassable rivers ; that even those barbarians who had served under Cyrus had betrayed them ; and that they were now left alone without any horse to assist them. By...
Pàgina 33 - Cyrus most confided in, was seen riding towards them full speed, his horse all in a heat, and he calling to every one he met, both in his own language and in Greek, that the king was at hand with a vast army, marching in order of battle ; which occasioned a general confusion among the Greeks, all expecting he would charge them before they had put themselves...
Pàgina 22 - The asses, when they were pursued, having gained ground of the horses, stood still (for they exceeded them much in speed) ; and when these came up with them, they did the same thing again ; so that our horsemen could take them by no other means but by dividing themselves into relays, and succeeding one another in the chase. The flesh of those that were taken was like that of red deer, but more tender.
Pàgina 65 - Clearchus, hearing this, asked the messenger of 'what extent the country was that lay between the Tigris and the canal : he answering, it was of a large extent, and contained, besides villages, many large cities, they concluded that the Barbarians had sent this man insidiously, from an apprehension lest the Greeks should not pass the bridge, but remain in the island, which was defended on one side by the Tigris, and on the other by the canal ; where the country that lay between being large and fruitful,...
Pàgina 35 - ... who were left behind hastened their march, and at once gave a general shout, as their custom is when they invoke the god of war, and all ran forward, striking their shields with their pikes, as some say, to frighten the enemy's horses ; so that before the...
Pàgina 142 - He advanced two or three Paces from the Tree under which he stood ; but, as soon as the Stones began to fly, he quickly retired, and, upon every Excursion, more than ten Cart-Loads of Stones were consumed.
Pàgina 37 - These being broken, and the six hundred belonging1 to Cyrus dispersed in the pursuit, very few were left about him, and those almost all persons who used to eat at his table : however, on discovering the king2 properly attended, and unable to contain himself, immediately cried out,