Xenophon, Anabasis, Carleton L. Brownson (Translator), 4.2.15

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[15] But when the Greeks got near this hill, the barbarians abandoned it without striking a blow, so that everybody was filled with surprise and imagined that they had quit the place out of fear that they might be surrounded and blockaded. As it proved, however, they had seen, looking down from their height, what was going on farther back, and were all setting out to attack the Greek rearguard.¹

Anabasis. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921-1922.

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Anabasis (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 2-3. Brownson, Carleton L, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921-1922.)

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Ἀνάβασις Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 3. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904.) — 4.2.15 focus

[15] ἐπεὶ δʼ ἐγγὺς ἐγένοντο οἱ Ἕλληνες, λείπουσιν οἱ βάρβαροι ἀμαχητὶ τὸν μαστόν, ὥστε θαυμαστὸν πᾶσι γενέσθαι καὶ ὑπώπτευον δείσαντας αὐτοὺς μὴ κυκλωθέντες πολιορκοῖντο ἀπολιπεῖν. οἱ δʼ ἄρα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄκρου καθορῶντες τὰ ὄπισθεν γιγνόμενα πάντες ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀπισθοφύλακας ἐχώρουν.

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Anabasis

1. i. e. the three companies left upon the first hill, which the main body of Xenophon’s troops had now passed by. See below.

Xenophon Anabasis 4.2.15

Carleton L. Brownson (Translator)

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