单词 | katabasis |
释义 | katabasisn. A going down; a military retreat, in allusion to that of the ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon, related by him in his Anabasis. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > retreat > specific katabasis1837 Long March1937 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 89/2 The Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 17 May 4/1 Little space is devoted to the Anabasis; it is, as in the story of Xenophon, the Katabasis which fills the larger part. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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