Anàbasi (ed. 3)
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Traducció:
- Frances Younghusband
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Adaptation by C. Witt / Frances Younghusband
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~47.400 paraules · 225 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAXenofont. (n.d.). The retreat of the ten thousand [Anàbasi (ed. 3)] (Frances Younghusband, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand
- MLAXenofont. The retreat of the ten thousand [Anàbasi (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
- ChicagoXenofont. The retreat of the ten thousand [Anàbasi (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
Referència de l’edició reproduïda. SigPhi és la reproducció digital, no l’editor. S’hi inclouen l’any, l’editorial i el traductor quan consten; «n.d.» indica que no consta l’any. La responsabilitat d’un pròleg o d’una nota es determina segons el passatge citat.
De què tracta
La retirada dels deu mil grecs des del cor de Pèrsia, en una altra traducció anglesa de l'«Anàbasi».
Context i història
Mateixa obra que l'«Anàbasi», paraules diferents. Avís: al catàleg l'«Anàbasi» hi consta en més d'una versió —sencera, els quatre primers llibres i una altra traducció anglesa—, més el volum en grec modern. Digueu quina edició citeu, i millor encara el llibre i el capítol.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
prompt and barbarous punishment. Not only criminals, but even persons merely suspected of having committed crimes, were put to death in the most horrible manner. Some were crushed between stones, others were torn limb from limb, and others, again, suffered painful imprisonment in troughs. For merely trifling offences they were cruelly mutilated. There is a Persian proverb that ‘the King has many eyes and ears.’ In every state the king must have means of knowing through his trusted officers, who see and hear for him, what is going on among the people. But in Persia the arrangements for obtaining information of this kind were reduced to a science. Satraps and people alike were constantly watched by a body of spies, and so secretly was this done that it was not even known who were the officers employed. A favourite device of the spies was to feign a friendship for the person whose actions they wished to report, and a man might be arrested and executed without once suspecting the false friend who had given information of his real or imaginary guilt. Sometimes the spy would denounce an innocent man for no other reason than to bring himself into notice as active in the King’s service. Another plan was to take note of every one who passed along the roads which led from the various Residences of the Great King to the other principal towns of the empire. These roads were commanded by fortresses where officers were stationed whose duty it was to enquire of every wayfarer whither he was going and on what errand, and any messenger carrying a letter was obliged to give it up for inspection. This was intended to check the free passage of suspicious persons, and to prevent the sending of letters not approved by the government; but it must often have been easy to find means of evading the King’s officers.…