Anabasis (ed. 3)
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Übersetzung:
- Frances Younghusband
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Adaptation by C. Witt / Frances Younghusband
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
- Umfang:
- ~47.400 Wörter · 225 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). The retreat of the ten thousand [Anabasis (ed. 3)] (Frances Younghusband, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand
- MLAXenophon. The retreat of the ten thousand [Anabasis (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
- ChicagoXenophon. The retreat of the ten thousand [Anabasis (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
Angabe der Ausgabe, die SigPhi wiedergibt: SigPhi ist ihre digitale Reproduktion, nicht der Verlag. Das Erscheinungsjahr steht nicht in den Metadaten (daher „n.d.“), und der Übersetzer erscheint nur, wenn er verzeichnet ist.
Wovon es handelt
Der Rückzug der Zehntausend aus dem Herzen Persiens, in einer weiteren englischen Übersetzung der Anabasis.
Kontext und Geschichte
Dasselbe Werk wie die Anabasis, mit anderen Worten. Anmerkung: der Katalog hat die Anabasis in mehr als einer Fassung — vollständig, die ersten vier Bücher und eine weitere englische Übersetzung —, dazu den Band auf Neugriechisch. Man sollte sagen, welche Ausgabe man zitiert, und besser noch Buch und Kapitel.
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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.…