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How to use Xenophon in a sentence

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In semi-retirement Xenophon wrote historical narratives, Socratic texts, and miscellaneous technical and political works.
Primarily let us ask, if a contemporary of Xenophon knew anything about tachygraphy, how is it that no one alluded to this art?
Kayser thinks that in the latter part he had Thucydides in his eye, but Xenophon seems rather to have been his model.
Xenophon said he would write on Wednesday to parliament's joint standing committee on foreign affairs to ask it to look at the matter.
But the Hindus either never had, or have unfortunately lost, their Herodotus and Xenophon.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon was on the doors this morning urging the reinstatement of the recommendations of the Houston report, which was the expert group that examined the asylum seeker issue for Labor.
Facing questioning from Xenophon during a community affairs estimates committee hearing, health department general counsel Chris Reid said the department would cooperate with police.
Herodotus was succeeded by authors such as Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato and Aristotle.
The painting calls to mind the description in Xenophon of how the animal was driven into the net and killed.
Some implicate either his taster Halotus, his doctor Xenophon, or the infamous poisoner Locusta as the administrator of the fatal substance.
Ancient historians such as Xenophon and Ephorus were the first who used the term in its modern sense.
Nick Xenophon has been the only elected independent Senator since his election to the Senate at the 2007 federal election.
At the same meeting, guest speaker Xenophon Michailides of Stemico Hellas in Greece revealed that his own country's tyre recycling activities were at a low level but that more emphasis was to be placed in this area.
Xenophon also mentions bronze peltae, but probably they were only faced with a thin covering of bronze.
First, there are established ways of setting the baselines and scrutinising them, and under the Xenophon amendments the rules governing them can be disallowed by parliament.
Xenophon lives up the road and the two men walk at night and chew the fat.
The independent senator Nick Xenophon has criticised the safeguard rules and promised to use the threat of Senate disallowance to give them more teeth.
Ruskin articulated an extended metaphor of household and family, drawing on Plato and Xenophon to demonstrate the communal and sometimes sacrificial nature of true economics.
Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.
The capital, Ninus or Nineveh, was taken by the Medes under Cyaxares, and some 200 years after Xenophon passed over its site, then mere mounds of earth.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then Xenophon, returning from the right wing to the left, addressed the soldiers.
So for the present Xenophon went off, taking the headman back with him to his household and friends.
Xenophon reveals himself and the Hellenic feeling with regard to war and its use.
The city of Cotyora is said by Xenophon to have belonged to the people of Sinope.
Xenophon and his men, therefore, stationing such a guard as they could, took up quarters there without fire or supper.
Yet, to the scholar, a raid in Thucydides is more than a campaign in Xenophon.
He does not defend himself, as Xenophon has defended him, by appealing to his practice of religion.
These are the sort of fellows Xenophon would have chosen himself, I take it.
Reads like a biographical incident in some hunt of Xenophon, boy or father.
These were the gorges that drove Xenophon to take to the mountains in the anabasis.
Then came the cause celebre, as it may be called, of the day, the trial of Xenophon himself.
This was a man who had a standing battle with Xenophon about the generalship of the army.
Socrates taught Xenophon and Plato geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes.
He is not therefore to be supplemented from the Memorabilia and Symposium of Xenophon, who belongs to an entirely different class of writers.
Xenophon himself must be credited with so much fun, and real fun it is.
What light does Arrian, that younger Xenophon, throw upon it?
Xenophon stared after him as he went out of the gate whistling heartily.
On the whole this description of the battle is, for Xenophon, obscure.
I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakspeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.
But he got an inkling when the director pointed him to the Greek mythology of Anabasis by Xenophon, who led an army through hostile territory, for inspiration.
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