History of Greece, Volumen9John Murray, 1856 |
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Página 249 - VIII HISTORY: XENOPHON The Anabasis . . . exemplifies the discipline, the endurance, the power of self-action and adaptation, the susceptibility of influence from speech and discussion, the combination of the reflecting obedience of citizens with the mechanical regularity of soldiers, which confer such immortal distinction on the Hellenic character. — G. GROTE. IN the late summer of 401 BC a Greek army of 10,000 men found itself in the plains of Mesopotamia near Babylon.
Página 110 - All held up their hands ; all then joined in the vow, and shouted the paean. This accident, so dexterously turned to profit by the rhetorical skill of Xenophon, was eminently beneficial in raising the army out of the depression which weighed them down, and in disposing them to listen to his animating appeal. Repeating his assurances that the gods were on their side and hostile to their perjured enemy, he recalled to their memory the great invasions of Greece by Darius and Xerxes — how the vast...
Página 535 - Grecian cities, both small and great, independent, — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old. Should any parties refuse to accept this peace, I will make war upon them, along with those who are of the same mind, both by land and sea, with ships and with money.
Página 110 - ... of the gods and of ultimate preservation. As he pronounced this last word, one of the soldiers near him happened to sneeze; immediately the whole army around shouted with one accord the accustomed invocation to Zeus the Preserver ; and Xenophon. taking up the accident, continued : " Since, gentlemen, this omen from Zeus the Preserver has appeared at the instant when we were talking about preservation, let us here vow to offer the preserving sacrifice to that god, and at the same time to sacrifice...
Página 34 - Greek hoplites for military discipline' — the reflections upon the discussions at Tarsus, when the Greek troops found that they had been deceived by Cyrus, where the chief thing to be noted is the appeal made to the reason and judgment of the soldiers, ' the habit, established more or less throughout so large a portion of the Grecian world, and attaining its maximum at Athens, of hearing both sides and deciding afterwards...
Página 184 - Silanus had begun to lay snares for him, obtaining by his own proceedings a collateral indication which he had announced to be visible in the victims. " If (added Xenophon) you had continued as destitute and unprovided, as you were just now — I should still have looked out for a resource in the capture of some city which would have enabled such of you as chose, to return at once ; while the rest stay behind to enrich themselves. But now there is no longer any necessity ; since Herakleia and Sinope...
Página 45 - These beautiful specimens of art and durability literally cover both banks, and prove that the borders of the Euphrates were once thickly inhabited by a people far advanced, indeed, in the application of hydraulics to domestic purposes of the first and greatest utility, the transport of water.
Página 30 - ... into detail, such instances as, — the description of the character of Cyrus, who, with all his noble qualities, did not possess the ' peculiar virtue of the Hellenic citizen, competence for alternate command and obedience ' — the observation that so harsh and imperious an officer as Clearchus ' could be tolerated as a commander of free and non-professional soldiers, is a proof of the great susceptibility of the Greek hoplites for military discipline...
Página 152 - the voice of the overjoyed crowd was heard distinctly crying out, Thalatta, Thalatta (the sea, the sea), and congratulating each other in ecstasy. The main body, the rear-guard, the baggagesoldiers driving up their horses and cattle before them, became all excited by the sound, and hurried up breathless to the summit. The whole army, officers and soldiers, were thus assembled, manifesting their joyous emotions by tears, embraces, and outpourings of enthusiastic sympathy. With spontaneous impulse,...
Página 264 - JEgospotami, were years of all-pervading tyranny, and multifarious intestine calamity, such as Greece had never before endured. The hardships of war, severe in many ways, were now at an end, but they were replaced by a state of suffering not the less difficult to bear because it was called peace. And what made the suffering yet more intolerable was, that it was a bitter disappointment and a flagrant violation of promises proclaimed, repeatedly and explicitly, by the Lacedaemonians themselves.