The Anabasis, Volum 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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Pàgina xxxviii
... hearing of their distress , terrifies the Bi- thynians by fires in the night - They raise the siege and depart - Xenophon arrives in safety the next day with the Arcadians at the port of Calpe , where he finds Chirisophus landed with ...
... hearing of their distress , terrifies the Bi- thynians by fires in the night - They raise the siege and depart - Xenophon arrives in safety the next day with the Arcadians at the port of Calpe , where he finds Chirisophus landed with ...
Pàgina liii
... hearing this , commended him for declaring he would not march against the king : and above two thousand left Xenias and Pasion , and taking their arms and " baggage with them , came and encamped with Cle- archus OF CYRUS.BOOK I. CHAP ...
... hearing this , commended him for declaring he would not march against the king : and above two thousand left Xenias and Pasion , and taking their arms and " baggage with them , came and encamped with Cle- archus OF CYRUS.BOOK I. CHAP ...
Pàgina 23
... hearing this , followed his advice , and passed the Euphrates before the rest had returned -an answer . When Cyrus heard they had passed the river he was pleased , and sending Glus to them , ordered him to say to them , in his name ...
... hearing this , followed his advice , and passed the Euphrates before the rest had returned -an answer . When Cyrus heard they had passed the river he was pleased , and sending Glus to them , ordered him to say to them , in his name ...
Pàgina 30
... hearing this , came to himself , and both sides resigning their anger , laid up their arms where they were before . VI . While they were marching forward , there ap- peared the footing and dung of horses , which , by the print of their ...
... hearing this , came to himself , and both sides resigning their anger , laid up their arms where they were before . VI . While they were marching forward , there ap- peared the footing and dung of horses , which , by the print of their ...
Pàgina 36
... hearing Cyrus was marching against him , immediately caused a trench to be made , by way of fortification , near the Euphrates ; close to which there was a narrow pass , through which Cyrus and his army marched , and came within the ...
... hearing Cyrus was marching against him , immediately caused a trench to be made , by way of fortification , near the Euphrates ; close to which there was a narrow pass , through which Cyrus and his army marched , and came within the ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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.