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... a trifle sadly of the home which he had left back there among the Maine hills, and which must have seemed a very long way off; or perhaps he was dwelling in awe upon the erudition of that excellent Greek gentleman, Mr. Xenophon, whose acquaintance, by means of the Anabasis, he was just making; or perhaps he was thinking of no more serious a subject than football and the intricate art of punting. But, whatever his thoughts may have been, they were doomed to speedy interruption, ...

— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... studied the Manual of Arms as never before, and made himself familiar with the lives of Caesar and Alexander. At Harvard, he had read the Anabasis on compulsion, but now ...

— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... Greek and Roman Stoics, the sect founded by Zeno about 300 years before the Christian era, which flourished until the decline of Rome. Arrian himself was born about 90 A.D. at Nicomedia. He wrote in the style of Xenophon the "Anabasis of Alexander," a book on "Tactics," and several histories which have been lost. He is chiefly of note, however, as the Boswell of Epictetus. ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various