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单词 katabasis
释义 katabasis
 /keuh tab"euh sis/,  n.  ,  pl.   katabases /-seez'/.
  1. a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa.
  2. a retreat, esp. a military retreat. Cf. anabasis.
 [1830-40; < Gk katábasis a going down, descent, equiv. to kataba- (s. of katabaínein to go down) + -sis -SIS. See KATA-, BASIS]
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