How To Use Xenophon In A Sentence
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Nehamas subjects Socrates to a far more telling reading of the same kind with no evidence beyond Plato and Xenophon, which is to say, as he recognizes, no evidence at all of any Socrates behind those texts.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality'
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Xenophon, who has long crusaded to reduce Australians' use of poker machines, sees palm oil labelling primarily as a consumer issue, saying: Australians consume 10 kilos of palm oil every year and don't know it.
Palm oil labelling in Australia could become a reality if bill passes
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Life Xenophon, son of Gryllus, from the Athenian deme (rural district) of Erchia, was born into a wealthy but politically inactive family around 430 BC.
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Unlike Xenophon, however, Grisone advocated the use of extreme punishment, violence, and brute force.
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He was only an Academy boy yesterday, or a theologue; unknown, unnoticed, saying his lesson in Xenophon, taking his notes on the Nicene Creed; blamed a little, possibly, by his teacher or by his professor, for inattention.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
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One example would be Strauss’ 1948 book On Tyranny, a study in Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, in which Strauss embraces the concept of the philosopher-tyrant “who has committed any number of crimes” in the pursuit of the interests of his polis.
Balkinization
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You are in DEEP TROUBLE when you are reading Matthew Arnold, and he is listing off a few Greeks, and when you see the name Xenophon, your mind exclaims, "THAT'S A REAL NAME?????
Paraphrasing Book II of Paradise Lost
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Xenophon, in his Sympos. brings in Socrates as a principal actor, no man merrier than himself, and sometimes he would [3516] ride a cockhorse with his children. — equitare in arundine longa.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Unlike Xenophon, however, Grisone advocated the use of extreme punishment, violence, and brute force.
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But even in the most excellent determination of goodnesse, what Philosophers counsaile can so readely direct a Prince, as the feined Cirus in Xenophon, or a vertuous man in all fortunes: as Aeneas in Virgill, or a whole Common-wealth, as the Way
Defence of Poesie
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And then, after disembarrassing us of these criteria of judgment, he proposes the reasonable view that Xenophon's Socratic discussions are neither fiction nor history, but rather halfway houses with elements of each.
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Under the orders of the young prince Cyrus of Persia, Xenophon is to travel into the harsh deserts with ten thousand men in an effort to take over all of Persia, giving Cyrus full reign over this arid land.
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For who that hath red Plato his dialogue called Alcibiades, Xenophon and Maximus Tyrius of Socrates opinions, may easily perceiue, that such loue is muche to be alowed and liked of, specially so meant, as Socrates vsed it: who sayth, that in deede he loued Alcybiades extremely, yet not Alcybiades person, but hys soule, which is Alcibiades owne selfe.
Shepheardes Calendar
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It is believed that tachygraphy was known from very early times, and Xenophon is said to have
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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Unlike Xenophon, however, Grisone advocated the use of extreme punishment, violence, and brute force.
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On this expedition or _anabasis_ up the country, Xenophon was only a volunteer, with no command, and under no man's orders, but accompanying the army on horseback, and enjoying the trip as a bright young man, well appointed by the prince, and full of intelligent curiosity, was sure to enjoy it.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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These they agreed to restore if he would not burn their houses, and to these terms Xenophon agreed.
Anabasis
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Profit is also found in Xenophon, Ovid, Thucydides, Cicero and Virgil.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Top 10 Most Influential Books:
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So I did, and said it was the finest thing I'd struck, beat Xenophon into a cocket hat; the blighter fairly glowed.
Isabelle
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Others were busy setting the place on fire; and they kept calling Xenophon by name: “Come out, Xenophon, and die like a man, or we will roast you alive inside.”
Anabasis
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Primarily let us ask, if a contemporary of Xenophon knew anything about tachygraphy, how is it that no one alluded to this art?
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Xenophon has always been seen as the most influential lakonizer during the classical times because he wrote Spartan Constitution.
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Some Persic words may be found in Xenophon, and some Latin ones in Plutarch; and such is the inevitable effect of war and commerce; but the form and substance of the language were not affected by this slight alloy.] 79 The life of Francis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Xenophon, that timocracies were "according to the laws of the
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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Erasmus 'essay explains this meaning and cites a passage from Xenophon where a youth makes fun of the ugly old Socrates as “far more hideous than the Sileni”; he then cites a speech in praise of Socrates in the
Desiderius Erasmus
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We clambered into the oxcart, and Xenophon drove away with us, chatting subvocally the while.
In the Garden of Iden
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All day he maintained his perilous station between the city and the Barbarians: Villehardouin decamped in silence at the dead of night; and his masterly retreat of three days would have deserved the praise of Xenophon and the ten thousand.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Xenophon is a democrat kind of a guy, a liberal, a union man, with some experience participating at the precinct, and county caucus levels.
Middle Earth Journal « Sphere Blog
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Xenophon figured out the queen bee but erroneously assigned her supervisory responsibilities she doesn't have.
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Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes).
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
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Xenophon the Artist: the “kinsman” of Cyrus again, and the light by-play to enliven the severe history.
Cyropaedia
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Well, -- to be Xenophontic, -- from the Race-Course that evening we marched one stadium, one parasang, to a cedar-grove up the road.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
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In the town of Sardis, within the satrapy of Lydia, the young philosopher-warrior Xenophon is about to embark on a most historic mission.
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