Cunaxa

American  

[kyoo-nak-suh] / kyuˈnæk sə /

noun

1. an ancient town in Babylonia, near the Euphrates: famous battle between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II in 401 b.c.

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Cunaxa British  

/ kjuːˈnæksə /

noun

1. the site near the lower Euphrates where Artaxerxes II defeated Cyrus the Younger in 401 _bc

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Example Sentences

They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here ensued, in October 401, the battle of Cunaxa.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

The fatal dart was thrown by Gryllus, son of Xenophon, the historian and leader of the ten thousand Greeks on their retreat from the battle-field of Cunaxa to the Black Sea.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

Cyrus the younger had two Greek women with him when he fell at Cunaxa, and one of them was a Milesian.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

He was in his way an exemplification of that ancient Greek regimen and stark thought which brought back the ten thousand from Cunaxa.

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore