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ΞΕΝΟΦΩΝΤΟΣ

ΚΥΡΟΥ ΑΝΑΒΑΣΙΣ.

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODE and SHAW, New-street-Square,

ΚΥΡΟΥ ΑΝΑΒΑΣΙΣ

XENOPHON'S

EXPEDITION OF CYRUS

INTO UPPER ASIA:

PRINCIPALLY FROM THE TEXT OF SCHNEIDER.

WITH ENGLISH NOTES FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.

BY THE

REV. JOHN T. WHITE, A.M.

OF C.C.C. OXFORD,

JUNIOR UPPER MASTER OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, LONDON,

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

PREFACE.

THE notes to the present Edition of Xenophon's Anabasis are principally taken from a MS. collection, embodying much of the information supplied, from time to time, to a very numerous class of pupils widely differing in mental capacity. Thus written, they will be found to contain not only what boys, possessed of average powers of mind, have been proved usually to require, but also much which the more talented can comprehend, and much which the less gifted need to have set before them.

Use has likewise been made of Professor Anthon's work, which has been carefully compared with the MS. forming the basis of these notes. Very many passages have been found to have engaged, in common, the attention both of the Professor and of the present Editor. In such cases, the note of either the one or the other has been retained, according to the neatness and accuracy, with which, in the Editor's opinion, it has been expressed; or else a note has been formed out of the materials jointly furnished by the two. In many instances, also, annotations have been supplied from the one, which had not been given by the other. It may be remarked, generally, that the Editor has directed his attention more to the elucidation of the structure of the language, and of the customs and

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