Word: xenophon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viens, Xerxes! Viens, Xenophon! Viens, Xénia! Viens, Xénopol...
...translation of the Iliad by Rieu is also coming; so are Sophocles, Xenophon, Theocritus and Tacitus. Penguin has entrusted mystery writer Dorothy Sayers with The Divine Comedy. Turgenev, Gorki and Ibsen will also get badly needed fresh coats of English...
Until they came to the sea at Trebizond, Xenophon's Greeks marched in a set pattern; he repetitiously records that each day's march (stathmos) covered so many parasangs. The inexorable Russians, whose diplomatic movements also follow a set pattern, reached Trebizond (now Trabzon) last week...
...population of high schools was marked by a "gradual change . . . in the whole character of the high school and its function toward American society." Where the early high school trained men who would go on to college, trained them in the staples of composition and mathematics, Virgil and Xenophon, the modern high school's function and scope are broader...
Three books, so the story goes, were on the desk of TIME'S editor when TIME'S first issue went to press - the Bible, Xenophon's Anabasis, and the Iliad...