... Anabasis: seven books

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American Book Company, 1921 - 575 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 8 - ... him to cope with his turbulent troops. Further, not being a professional militarist, he was little concerned with traditional practices, and always ready to devise new tactics to meet new conditions. A modern student of military science and biographer of Alexander, Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, writes: "The soldier of greatest use to us preceding Alexander was unquestionably Xenophon. . . . It is he who has shown the world what should be the tactics of retreat, how to command a rear guard. More...
Pàgina 466 - ... chap. = chapter. сотр. = comparative. cond. = condition, conditional. conj. = conjunction. const. = construe, construction. contr. = contraction, contracted. co-ord. = co-ordinate. dat. = dative. decl. = declension. def. = definite. dem. = demonstrative. dep. = deponent. dim. = diminutive. dir. = direct. disc. = discourse. Dor. = Doric. edit. = edition, editor. editt. = editions, editors. eg = for example. encl. = enclitic. Eng. = English. Ep. = Epic. epith.
Pàgina 12 - ... possible where there is, in strictness of speech, no national life, no growth of intellect, no spirit of personal independence in the individual citizen. A society of rude and hardy warriors banded together under a fearless leader must crush the subjects of a despot who can look back only to the conquests of his forefathers as a pledge for the continuance of his prosperity ; but this infusion of new blood brings with it no change in the essential condition of things so long as the dominion of...
Pàgina 466 - N. = note. neg. = negative. neut. = neuter. nom. = nominative. obj. = object. obs. = observe, observation. opp. to = opposed to. opt. = optative. p., pp. = page, pages. part. gen. = partitive genitive. partie. = participle. pass. = passive, passively. pers. = person, personal, personally. pf . = perfect.
Pàgina 394 - This temple was greatly to surpass the old in the extent of its territory, and in the number of its worshippers, and in the purity of its worship.
Pàgina 7 - a marching democracy," "a roving commonwealth," deliberating and acting, fighting and voting, "an epitome of Athens set adrift in the center of Asia." As perceptively noted by Edith Hamilton in The Greek Way. "What brought the Greeks safely back from Asia was precisely what made Athens great. The Athenian was a law unto himself, but his dominant instinct to stand alone was counterbalanced by his sense of overwhelming obligation to serve the state.
Pàgina 466 - ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE COLLEGE SERIES OF GREEK AUTHORS. abs. = absolute, absolutely. ace. = accusative. ace. to = according to. act. = active, actively. adj. = adjective, adjectively. adv. = adverb, adverbial, adverbially. Aeol. = Aeolic. antee. = antecedent. aor. = aorist. apod. = apodosis. App. = Appendix. appos. = apposition, appositive. art. = article. Att. = Attic. attrib. = attributive. aug. = augment. c., cc. = chapter, chapters (when numerals follow). cf. = confer (in referring...
Pàgina 8 - Historical. — Of what interest the Anabasis has been to the historian, the foot-notes and appendices of the standard histories of Greece are sufficient indication. Besides its pictures of life and character among the Persians and those little-known mountain tribes to the north, it furnishes an important chapter in the history of that long and irrepressible conflict between the Greeks and the Persians.

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