The Anabasis of Xenophon: Chiefly According to the Text of L. Dindorf; with Notes: for the Use of Schools and CollegesLeavitt, Trow & Company, 1844 - 368 pages |
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Page 273 - Heet has two sources, and is divided by a wall ш the centre, on one side of which the bitumen bubbles up, and on the other side, the oil of naptha, for the two productions are always found in the same situations. The bitumen is at first brittle, but is rendered capable of being applied to brick, by being boiled with a certain proportion of oil. It furnishes the finest of all cements. Cf. Bib. Repos. Vol. VIII. pp. 158-89. 13. ¿«¿у«/»;. A reference to these canals, with which the region of...
Page 247 - STEWARD, an overseer, a house manager, one who had authority over the servants or slaves of a family, to assign their tasks and portions ; with- which was also united the general management of affairs and accounts ; such persons were themselves usually slaves, Luke xii, 42.
Page 209 - Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee : Alas ! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share : Oh ! prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon wild fig-trees join the wall of Troy : Thou from this tower defend th...
Page 261 - ... well understood. We are now very much imposed on by our eastern frontier. The settlements in this country generally extend up the Mississippi, with the exception of those on the Ohio; those settlements extend no where very far from the Mississippi. Their width is very inconsiderable, being bounded on the one side by the river, and on the other by the great prairies, that cannot be inhabited for want of wood and water. Every part, therefore, appears to be equally exposed; and so great and so just...
Page 242 - Artagerses had thiown his javelin at Cyrus with a force that shook him in his seat, and was turning his horse, Cyrus aimed a stroke at him with his spear, the point of which entered at his collar bone and pierced through his neck.
Page 328 - OjUOJOi and u7ro ; ueto^es, which, in later times, appears to have been considerable. The latter term probably comprehended those citizens who, from degeneracy of manners or other causes, had undergone some kind of civil degradation. To these the b/j.otot were opposed, although it is not certain in what the precise difference consisted.
Page 217 - ... would express the facility of making a false step in ascending a precipitous height or descending a steep declivity. Passow prefers this derivation of the word, adding, however, another АЛЛ, а).ап/лоч, that from which the footstep slips.
Page 236 - Cyrus stationed himself in the left wing. ifn).r¡r, ie he had no helmet on his head. That he wore a turban is evident from the nature of the case, as well as from the testimony of Ctesias (cf. Plut Artax.
Page 326 - Lodging under a tent, as we did, we seldom had occasion to enter them; and I may not find a more convenient place to allude to the subject than now, before recommencing our journey. These villages are just like those described by Xenophon, in the same region, on his retreat with the Ten Thousand. They are constructed mostly under ground, ie the houses are partially sunk below the surface, and the earth is also raised around them, so as completely to imbed three sides, the fourth remaining open to...