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XENOPHON

Kyrou Anabasis, juxta ed. Thomae Hutchinson

Oxford
e Typographeo Clarendoniano
1805

€180 - €240

8vo, text in GREEK. Nice red long-grain morocco binding, all edges gilt, spine rubbed. We add: idem. De Cyri Institutione Libri Octo. cum notis Thomae Hutchinson. Glasgow, 1814. 8vo, text in GREEK. With an engraved map as frontispiece. Tree calf binding, joints weak.
+ idem. Opera Graece et Latine ex recensione Edvardi WELLS. Leipzig, 1764. 3 vol. only of 4 in-8vo, ill. with a portrait of the author and a different front. in the following volumes. Contemporary calf bindings, red edges, spines worn, one cover loose (together: 5 vol.)

Traditionally, Anabasis is one of the first unabridged texts studied by students of classical Greek, because of its clear and unadorned prose style in relatively pure Attic dialect. Thálassa! Thálassa! was the cry of joy uttered by the roaming Ten Thousand when they saw the Black Sea from Mount Theches after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire. Thomas Hutchinson's edition of Xenophon was described by Dibdin as ""admirable"" and ""preceded by none worth mentioning

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