anabasis

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Xenophon's Anabasis, Homer, and some desultory selections from other authors were supposed to give a sufficient knowledge of Greek literature.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

Strong as is the contrast between Herodotus and Thucydides, their works have yet a character which distinguish both alike from the historical work of Xenophon in the Anabasis and the Hellenica.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Such also was Heraclides the Maronite, the flatterer of Seuthes the king of the Thracians, who is mentioned by Xenophon in the seventh book of the Anabasis.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

The story of Rufino’s expedition to the Moro country in the summer of 1901 reads like a chapter from Anabasis.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

"That boy" had been presented to the king, and he, who had compiled a Greek Grammar, a Greek Reader, and edited the Anabasis, had been "left out in the cold."

From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Optic, Oliver