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63 - Xenophon, Anabasis VI

Cost of Glory

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The Thracian Hymn

The Greeks have Thracians in their army. These were brought in by Cliarchus. So there, these are guys on their team. They're drinking out of these horn cups like barbarian lords after they had made libations and sang the Pion to Thracians rose up first. It seemed to everyone that the man had been mortally wounded and he fell artfully. And the Pathegonians cried out. Then the first man despoiled the other of his arms and marched off,. While the other Thracians carried off the fallen dancer as though he were dead.

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