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Excerpt from The Anabasis, or Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilia of Socrates: Literally Tr From the Greek of Xenophon
A Biographical Notice of Xenophon is prefixed to the second volume of this translation. Some remarks are here offered on the authorship of the "Anabasis."
A passage of the "Hellenica," in which it is said that a narrative of the Expedition of Cyrus was written by Themistogenes of Syracuse, has given rise to the question whether the account of that expedition which we now have is that of Xenophon or that of Themistogenes.
When Xenophon, in the course of his narrative of events relating to Greece, comes to the time at which the expedition of Cyrus took place, he says, "How Cyrus collected an army, how he marched up the country with it against his brother, how the battle was fought, how Cyrus was killed, and how the Greeks afterwards effected a safe retreat to the sea, has been written by Themistogenes the Syracusan."
If the phrase containing it be translated, with Morus, quae nominatur aut laudatur in Histora Graeca, a sense is given to the verb for which there is no authority; and if it be rendered, with most interpreters, quae inserta legitur historiis Graecis, that is said which is not true.
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