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"And how far may you have gone now?" queried Crabb. "I was reading the fifth book of Virgil when I left off study." "Really, you are quite a scholar. I suppose you don't know any Greek?" "I was in the second book of the Anabasis." "You will go into the first class, then. I hope you will become one of the ornaments of the institute." "Thank you. Is the first class under Mr. Smith?"
To be sure, he was guilty of a few acts of pillage in the course of his Persian campaign; but he tells the story of it in his "Anabasis" with a brave front: his purse was low, and needed replenishment; there is no cover put up, of disorderly sutlers or camp-followers. Economy has come to have a contorted meaning in our day, as if it were only saving.
Ambition grew apace; he studied the Manual of Arms as never before, and made himself familiar with the lives of Cæsar and Alexander. At Harvard, he had read the Anabasis on compulsion, but now he read it with zest. The Second Congress was a Congress of action; the first had been one merely of conference. A presiding officer was required, and Samuel Adams quietly pushed his man to the front.
C. It does not go according to the paradigm. T. Yes, but how do you account for this? C. is silent. T. Are its tenses formed from several roots? C. is silent. T. is silent; then he changes the subject. T. Well, now you say Anabasis means an ascent. Who ascended? C. The Greeks, Xenophon. T. Very well: Xenophon and the Greeks; the Greeks ascended. To what did they ascend?
Xenophon, in his Anabasis, speaks of ostriches in Mesopotamia being run down by fleet horses. Mount Atlas was called Dyris by the ancient aborigines, or Derem, its name amongst the modern aborigines.
We shall see plainly by this method of study how the original contradiction arises and how what was previously irreconcilable, turns out to be two poles of an evolutionary process. By that means, several principles of myth interpretation will be derived. I have just spoken of an anabasis. By that we are to understand a forward movement in a moral or religious sense.
In 1869 he learned Greek, and was proud of being able to read the "Anabasis" in a few months. He interested himself in social problems, and fought hard with the authorities to save a man from capital punishment. To various schemes of education, and to the general amelioration of the condition of the peasants, he gave all the tremendous energy of his mind.
We shall not be satisfied with analysis, but endeavor to follow up certain evolutionary tendencies which, expressed in psychological symbols, developing according to natural laws, will allow us to conjecture a spiritual building up or progression that one might call an anabasis.
In 401 he joined the expedition of Cyrus, recorded in the "Anabasis," and did not again take up his residence in Athens. The "Anabasis" must be introduced by an historical note. In the year 404 B.C. the Peloponnesian war was brought to a close by a peace establishing the Lacedæmonian supremacy consequent upon the crowning disaster to the Athenians at Aegos Potami.
"I seem to take frequent leave of you, these times, lieutenant," he said. "Yes; and your farewell ride with the Whipple mail so far seems to have been anything but monotonous. I think the Anabasis would be a more suitable subject of study on this route than the Memorabilia."
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