55 - Xenophon, Anabasis III
Cost of Glory
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After the generals had been seized, when such of the captains and soldiers, as accompanied them, had been killed, the Greeks were naturally in great perplexity. Many did not come that night to their quarters, but lay down wherever they each chanced to be, unable to sleep for grief and longing for the native cities and parents,. Their wives and children, whom they thought they should never see again. That's the opening of Book 3 of Xenophon's Anabasis, 10,000 stadia from Greece, that's about a thousand miles. The rest of the Greeks are left there, and they still have to figure out now, what are they going to do?
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