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anabasis

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a·nab·a·sis  (-nb-ss)
n. pl. a·nab·a·ses (-sz)
1. An advance; an expedition.
2. A large-scale military advance, specifically the Greek mercenary expedition across Asia Minor in 401 b.c. led by Cyrus the Younger of Persia, as described by Xenophon. It was unsuccessful, and the Greeks, led by Xenophon, retreated to the Black Sea.
[Greek, from anabainein, to go up; see anabaena.]
anabasis
the progress of a disease, from onset to finish.
See also: Disease and Illness
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The repulsive picture which is given of him in the Anabasis of Xenophon, where he also appears as the friend of Aristippus 'and a fair youth having lovers,' has no other trait of likeness to the Meno of Plato.
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