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62 - Xenophon, Anabasis V

Cost of Glory

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The Mosanoikians in the Citadel

The Mosanoikians in the Citadel put up a pretty hard fight, but here's what happens. The barbarians took to flight from that point also, every man of them having abandoned the fortress. Their king in his wooden tower built upon the Citadel, whom all the people jointly maintain while he remains there on guard, refused to come forth as did also the commander of the stronghold which had been captured earlier. So they were burned up where they were, along with their towers. And just another note here that I thought was interesting. Out of these nuts, by boiling them and baking them into loaves, they made the bread which they used the most,. the Greeks also found wine,

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