Profit is also found in Xenophon, Ovid, Thucydides, Cicero and Virgil. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » My Top 10 Most Influential Books:] Reference
In the town of Sardis, within the satrapy of Lydia, the young philosopher-warrior Xenophon is about to embark on a most historic mission. From Wordnik.com. [2010 April 10 « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
These they agreed to restore if he would not burn their houses, and to these terms Xenophon agreed. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
A Prince whose worth by Xenophon is fam'd. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
Grammar -- 'Xenophon's Anabasis,' 'Eclogæ Latinæ,' 'Lessons in. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
See some remarks on S. 34 in "Hellenica Essays," "Xenophon," p. 349. From Wordnik.com. [The Sportsman] Reference
Others read "Xenophon," which Kruger maintains to be the true reading. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
"When a narrative deals in the marvelous," such as Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference
Based on a novel by Sol Yurick (itself borrowing its plotline from antiquity, namely Xenophon's. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
Two hundred years later, when Xenophon with his Ten Thousand. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
They were known to Xenophon, and are now worked principally by. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Socrates, with his disciples Xenophon and Plato; the historians. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
One of these was Xenophon, the popular historian of the expedition. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
French terms spelt, in the letters sacred to Euripides and Xenophon. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
The war had given Xenophon his opportunity as a soldier and a writer. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
And in the "Banquet" of Xenophon, Socrates specially recommends them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
For the Freshmen, Livy, Xenophon, and algebra occupied the first term. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
It is "the master's eye" generally, as in Xenophon, "Oeconom." xii. 20; and. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Theophrastus, Democritus, and Xenophon; and Latin writers like Cato and Varro. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Xenophon, and could enumerate the causes which brought the Roman empire to ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
Chrysostom said of Xenophon, that "he had something of witchcraft in his writings.". From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
The fifth flood is mentioned by Xenophon as happening in Egypt in the time of Proteus. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
That man killed by you was such a one, (61) and Xenophon was tortured, and Hippias of Thasos. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Being overheard by Xenophon, they were subsequently committed to writing and published by him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Xenophon excellently feigneth such another stratagem, performed by Abradates in Cyrus 'behalf. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Xenophon (about 445-355 B.C.) was an Athenian, and is known both as a general and a writer. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Which (as Xenophon reporteth) remained to his daies, with their names ingrauen in Syrian letters. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Xenophon, Haydon managed to get through the winter, though his children were often without stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Socrates once said, "For what higher reward could a teacher ask than to have such pupils as Xenophon and Plato?". From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Seaman, a Hungarian bay, by Xenophon and Lena Rivers, was drawn in profile, very erect on his slender, nervous legs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For, if he embrace the opinions of Xenophon and Plato, by his own reason, they will no more be theirs, but become his own. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Xenophon, son of Euripides, who not only seemed to be of good character, but you thought him worthy to be Strategus, as I hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Noah divided the world among his first sons that they might people it, and then embarked on the Euxine Sea as we gather from Xenophon. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
The doctrine of the last-quoted lines coincides almost exactly with what was the aim and end, Xenophon tells us, of all the teaching of. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
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