Xenophon: The AnabasisJ. & H. Harper, 1831 |
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able Abradatas abundance advantage affairs alike-honoured allies appear Araspes archers Armenian arms army Artabazus asked Assyrian Astyages attend Babylon bade beasts belongs better boys brave Cadusians Cambyses Carians Chaldeans chariots Chrysantas commanders corslets Croesus Cyaxares Cyrus Cyrus's desire despatch discourse drink endeavour enemy enemy's engage father fear fight foot force fortress friends Gadatas gave give Gobryas gods grandfather greatest guard hand happy heard hearing honour horsemen hunt Hyrcanians Hystaspes javelin Jove king labour likewise Lydians manner matter means meat Medes mind multitude noble obedience observed occasion opinion ourselves Panthea perceived Persians person phalanx Pheraulas Phrygia pleased pleasure possession practise present proper ready receive reckon respect rest riches Sacian satraps sent servants soldiers soon sort spoke stand stood supper Susian taken tell tent things thought Tigranes tion told took treasures
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Page 258 - The nurse, after having repeatedly begged her not to do this, and meeting with no success, but observing her to grow angry, sat herself down, breaking out into tears. She, being before-hand provided with a sword, killed herself, and, laying her head down on her husband's breast, she died. The nurse set up a lamentable cry, and covered them both as Panthea had directed. " Cyrus, as soon as he was informed of what the woman had done, being struck with it, went to help her if he could. The servants...
Page 1 - Cicero remarks, that not to know what has been transacted in former times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Page 256 - Gobryas to take with them all the rich ornaments proper for a friend and an excellent man deceased, and to follow after him; and whoever had herds of cattle with him, he ordered them to take both oxen, and horses, and sheep in good number, and to bring them away to the place where, by inquiry, they should find him to be, that he might sacrifice these to Abradatus.
Page 25 - ... upright: then you all entirely forgot yourselves ; you, that you were king, and they, that you were their governor ; and then, for the first time, I discovered that you were celebrating a festival, where all were allowed to talk with equal liberty ; for you never ceased talking.
Page 265 - Babylonians drank and revelled the whole night ; on that occasion, as soon as it grew dark, he took a number of men with him, and opened the ditches into the river. When this was done, the water ran off' in the night by the ditches, and the passage of the river through the city became passable.
Page 237 - He wondered when he saw them, and inquired thus of Panthea: 'And have you made me these arms, woman, by destroying your own ornaments?' 'No, by Jove!" said Panthea, 'not what is the most valuable of them; for it is you, if you appear to others to be what I think you, that will be my greatest ornament.
Page 237 - Abradatus, who was before a man of fine appearance, was set out in those arms, he appeared the most beautiful and noble of all, especially, being likewise so by nature. Then, taking the reins from the driver, he was just preparing to mount the chariot, when Panthea, after she had desired all that were there to retire, thus said: 'O Abradatus!
Page 257 - I furnish you with.' (Gobryas and Gadatas were then come up, and had brought rich ornaments in great abundance with them.) 'Then,' said he, 'be assured that he shall not want respect and honor in all other things; but over and above, multitudes shall concur in raising him a monument that shall be worthy of us, and all the sacrifices shall be made him that are proper to be made in honor of a brave man.
Page 327 - I see that the soul communicates vigor and motion to mortal bodies during its continuance in them. Neither can I be persuaded that the soul is divested of intelligence, on its separation from this gross, senseless body; but it is probable, that when the soul is separated, it becomes pure and intire, and is then more intelligent.
Page 237 - ... greater regard to her husband than to her own soul, I believe you know that I am such a one; what need I, therefore, speak of things in particular? for I reckon that my actions have convinced you more than any words I can now use. And yet, though I stand thus affected towards you, as you know I do, I swear by this friendship of mine and yours, that I certainly would rather choose to be put under ground jointly with you, approving yourself a brave man, than to live with you in disgrace and shame...