In the canon
A Persian Expedition
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 370 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 380
The shout runs back down the column before anyone at the rear can see what caused it: thalatta, thalatta, the sea, the sea, ten thousand men crowding a bare hilltop to weep at a grey smear on the horizon. Xenophon had come along as a guest rather than a soldier, a young Athenian following a friend into the pay of a Persian prince who wanted his brother's throne.
The sea! the sea!
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