anabasis
Americannoun
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a march from the coast into the interior, as that of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II, described by Xenophon in his historical work Anabasis (379–371 b.c.).
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Literary. any military expedition or advance.
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the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc , described by Xenophon in his Anabasis Compare katabasis
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any military expedition, esp one from the coast to the interior
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A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia�except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis.
From Time Magazine Archive
T. Well, Xenophon's Anabasis; now what is the meaning of the word anabasis?
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry
They mix in everywhere, riding on clouds, clinging to robes, perching on the shoulders of Apostles— everywhere thick in the flight and helping on that glorious anabasis.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Hubbard, Elbert
The vast anabasis to Moscow had emanated from a people not conspicuously careful of public morality.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty-second year.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian
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