Definition of Anabesis
Anab`asis, an account by Xenophon of the ill-fated expedition of
Cyrus the Younger against his brother Artaxerxes, and of the retreat of
the 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon who accompanied him, after the battle of
Cunaxa in 401 B.C.
- Wikipedia
||A*nab"a*sis (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to
go up; &?; up + &?; to go.] 1. A journey or expedition
up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia,
described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."
The anabasis of Napoleon.
De Quincey.
2. (Med.) The first period, or increase, of
a disease; augmentation. [Obs.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia
*1989: ‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we'll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.' They looked at him as if he were barmy. (Burgess, Any Old Iron)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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