单词 | katabasis |
释义 | Word Frequency katabasis(kəˈtæbəsɪs) nounWord forms: plural -ses (-ˌsiːz) 1. the retreat of the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus the Younger, after his death at Cunaxa, from the Euphrates to the Black Sea in 401–400 bc under the leadership of Xenophon: recounted in his Anabasis Compare anabasis 2. literary a retreat Word origin C19: from Greek: a going down, from katabainein to go down |
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