62 - Xenophon, Anabasis V
Cost of Glory
The Misunderstanding of the Greeks
Greeks were said by the Greeks who served on the expedition to be the most uncivilized people whose country they traversed. They habitually did in public the things that other people would only do in private, he writes. Cenophon ends up speaking on their behalf and pleads with them to play nice. He says everyone is nervous about this big army being in their territory.
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