Crossword-Solution: XENOPHON
We have 11 clues for the answer “XENOPHON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Anabasis" author | 1 answer |
| "Anabasis" chronicler | 1 answer |
| Athenian historian who wrote "Anabasis." | 1 answer |
| CYNEGETICUS, author of | 1 answer |
| CYROPAEDIA, author of | 1 answer |
| GREECE history (411-362 BC), writer on | 1 answer |
| HELLENICA, author of | 1 answer |
| HIPPARCHICUS, author of | 1 answer |
| Disciple of Socrates | 2 answers |
| Student of Socrates | 2 answers |
| Greek historian. | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with XENOPHON (5)
Among the men and books contributing to these pages are the Gesta Romanorum, Il Libro d'Oro, Xenophon, Ovid, Lucian, the Venerable Bede, William of Malmesbury.
Hippocrates (since whose time the science of medicine has not advanced even the two stadia, five parasangs of Xenophon)--Hippocrates, I say, discovered that the brain is subject to those very same diseases to which the other and inferior bowels are liable.
Consider the life Sophie had led, the sort of people with whom she had associated, and that temptation towards laissez-faire which conquers all but the rarest woman in the mode of life in which she was existing, and judge of the constancy of purpose that kept that little nose so steadfastly in Plutarch and Xenophon.
But there was no Xenophon, no algebra, that day! Dire was the distress of my poor dominie when he found the mother as much bewildered as the daughter was frightened, by the mistake.
Xenophon's Ten Thousand did not hail the sea more gladly than I welcomed those frowning ramparts of the Berg.
Quotes with XENOPHON (2)
Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical body — volatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural world — could seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human.
In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story of an army of Greek mercenaries who suddenly find themselves leaderless and lost in the middle of Persia. They elect new officers, and then hold a collective vote to decide what to do next. In a case like this, even if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would h…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Slate.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1951–2008).