Ten thousand Greek mercenaries march into Persia for a prince who is killed in his first battle, find themselves a thousand miles from home with their generals murdered, elect new ones — Xenophon among them — and walk out through the mountains to the sea.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Anabasis that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: H. G. Dakyns, 1890. Source: Gutenberg 1170.
The text here is H. G. Dakyns’ translation, Macmillan, 1890, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1170, set unaltered.
Xenophon writes about himself in the third person throughout, and does not say he is the author until the third book.
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