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Xenophon

[ US /ˈzɛnəfən/ ]
NOUN
  1. Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC)

How To Use Xenophon In A Sentence

  • Profit is also found in Xenophon, Ovid, Thucydides, Cicero and Virgil. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Top 10 Most Influential Books:
  • In the town of Sardis, within the satrapy of Lydia, the young philosopher-warrior Xenophon is about to embark on a most historic mission. 2010 April 10 « The BookBanter Blog
  • Well, -- to be Xenophontic, -- from the Race-Course that evening we marched one stadium, one parasang, to a cedar-grove up the road. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
  • Xenophon the Artist: the “kinsman” of Cyrus again, and the light by-play to enliven the severe history. Cyropaedia
  • Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes). The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
  • Xenophon figured out the queen bee but erroneously assigned her supervisory responsibilities she doesn't have.
  • Xenophon is a democrat kind of a guy, a liberal, a union man, with some experience participating at the precinct, and county caucus levels. Middle Earth Journal « Sphere Blog
  • All day he maintained his perilous station between the city and the Barbarians: Villehardouin decamped in silence at the dead of night; and his masterly retreat of three days would have deserved the praise of Xenophon and the ten thousand. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • We clambered into the oxcart, and Xenophon drove away with us, chatting subvocally the while. In the Garden of Iden
  • Erasmus 'essay explains this meaning and cites a passage from Xenophon where a youth makes fun of the ugly old Socrates as “far more hideous than the Sileni”; he then cites a speech in praise of Socrates in the Desiderius Erasmus
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