Xenophon

American  

[zen-uh-fuhn, -fon] / ˈzɛn ə fən, -ˌfɒn /

noun

1. 434?–355? b.c., Greek historian and essayist.

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Xenophon British  

/ ˈzɛnəfən /

noun

1. 431–?355 _bc , Greek general and historian; a disciple of Socrates. He accompanied Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II and, after Cyrus' death at Cunaxa (401), he led his army of 10 000 Greek soldiers to the Black Sea, an expedition described in his Anabasis. His other works include Hellenica, a history of Greece, and the Memorabilia, Apology, and Symposium, which contain recollections of Socrates

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Other Word Forms

• Xenophontian
  adjective
• Xenophontine
  adjective

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Xenophon

Xenophon at times tries to show that the Spartans, too, abandoned self-restraint and overextended themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Another contemporary of Socrates, the historian Xenophon, wrote an account of Socrates’s trial and death in his Memorabilia.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

Nick Xenophon, an independent senator at the time, complained that the plan was being “systematically undermined”.

From Economist ● May 17, 2018

“This has been a needless point of division in the community for more than 18 months now,” Nick Xenophon, a former senator who used to represent the state of South Australia, said in a statement.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

Besides the palace of the king, Xenophon speaks of citadels of Babylon which surrendered to the conqueror on the following morning.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

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