The Anabasis, Volum 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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Pàgina 33
... captains of the Greeks , and advised with them concerning the order of battle ; at the same time encouraging them by the following persuasions ; ' O Greeks ! it is not from any want of barbarians that I make use of you as my auxiliaries ...
... captains of the Greeks , and advised with them concerning the order of battle ; at the same time encouraging them by the following persuasions ; ' O Greeks ! it is not from any want of barbarians that I make use of you as my auxiliaries ...
Pàgina 56
... captains hearing this departed , and did as they were directed ; Clearchus having taken on him the command of the army , who submitted to him , not as having elected him to that employment , but be- cause they were sensible that he ...
... captains hearing this departed , and did as they were directed ; Clearchus having taken on him the command of the army , who submitted to him , not as having elected him to that employment , but be- cause they were sensible that he ...
Pàgina 57
... captains of the Greeks went in a body to Ariæus , and both they and he , with the most considerable men about him , took an oath not to betray one another , and to become allies . The barbarians also swore that they would conduct them ...
... captains of the Greeks went in a body to Ariæus , and both they and he , with the most considerable men about him , took an oath not to betray one another , and to become allies . The barbarians also swore that they would conduct them ...
Pàgina 64
... for what you want . ' This was agreed on , and Tissaphernes , with the queen's brother , took the oath , and gave their hands to the Greek ge- nerals and captains , and received those of the Greeks 64 XENOPHON ON THE EXPEDITION.
... for what you want . ' This was agreed on , and Tissaphernes , with the queen's brother , took the oath , and gave their hands to the Greek ge- nerals and captains , and received those of the Greeks 64 XENOPHON ON THE EXPEDITION.
Pàgina 65
Xenophon. nerals and captains , and received those of the Greeks ; after which Tissaphernes said , ' I must now return to the king , and when I have despatched what is neces- sary , I will come back to you with all things in readi- ness ...
Xenophon. nerals and captains , and received those of the Greeks ; after which Tissaphernes said , ' I must now return to the king , and when I have despatched what is neces- sary , I will come back to you with all things in readi- ness ...
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acquainted Agasias Anaxibius answered Arcadian Ariæus arms army arrived assembled assistance Athenian attack baggage barbarians battle belonging booty Byzantium called camp captains Carduchians Cerazunt Chirisophus Cilicia Cleander Clearchus Colchians command Cyrus daricks desired Dexippus Diodorus Siculus encamped endeavor enemy enemy's Euphrates Euxine sea expedition favor fight fled follow forces friends gave give gods Greece Greeks hearing heavy-armed Heraclea Heraclides hill honor informed inhabitants king Lacedæmonians manner means Menon mountain night occasion offered sacrifice opinion Orontas ourselves parasangs passage passed the river Perinthus Persian person Pharnabazus phon Phrygia plain plunder possessed present proposed provisions Proxenus rear received resolved rest retreat road sail Scillus sent Seuthes ships soldiers soon stadia stay stones stood Strabo sumpter horses targeteers thence thing thought thousand Thracians Tigris Timasion Tissaphernes town troops victims villages Xeno Xenophon
Passatges populars
Pàgina 1 - Cicero remarks, that not to know what has been transacted in former times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Pàgina 4 - if you desire your son, though no great scholar, to read and reflect, it is your duty to place in his hands the best translations of the best Classical Authors.
Pàgina 146 - 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 iu 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 24 - 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 149 - Order it is not known, bringing together a great many Stones, made a large Mount, upon which they placed a great Quantity of Shields made of raw Ox-hides, Staves, and Bucklers taken from the Enemy. The Guide himself cut the Bucklers in Pieces, and exhorted the rest to do the same. After this the Greeks sent back their Guide, giving him Presents out of the public Stock, these were a Horse, a silver Cup, a Persian Dress, and ten Daricks. But, above all Things the Guide desired the Soldiers to give...
Pàgina 48 - Phocaean, who was said to be a Woman of great Sense and Beauty. The other, a Milesian, who was the younger of the two, was also taken by the King's Troops, but escaped naked to the Quarter of the Greeks, who were left to guard the Baggage. These, forming themselves, killed many of those who were plundering the Camp, and lost some of their own Men ; however, they did not fly, but saved the Milesian, with the Men and Effects, and, in general, every thing else that was in their Quarter.
Pàgina 69 - 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, and in no want of Labourers to cultivate it, might...
Pàgina 41 - 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,
Pàgina 26 - 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 DO other means but by dividing themselves into relays, and succeeding one another in the chase.
Pàgina 83 - ... during the night, but lay down to rest where they severally happened to be, unable to sleep for sorrow and longing for their country, their parents, their wives and children, whom they never expected to see again.