Anabase (ed. 3)
- Langue:
- anglais
- Traduction:
- Frances Younghusband
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Adaptation by C. Witt / Frances Younghusband
- État du texte:
- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~47 400 mots · 225 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAXénophon. (n.d.). The retreat of the ten thousand [Anabase (ed. 3)] (Frances Younghusband, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand
- MLAXénophon. The retreat of the ten thousand [Anabase (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
- ChicagoXénophon. The retreat of the ten thousand [Anabase (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
Référence de l'édition que reproduit SigPhi : SigPhi en est la reproduction numérique, pas l'éditeur. L'année de l'édition ne figure pas dans les métadonnées (d'où « n.d. ») et le traducteur n'apparaît que lorsqu'il est connu.
De quoi il s'agit
La retraite des Dix Mille depuis le cœur de la Perse, dans une autre traduction anglaise de l'Anabase.
Contexte et histoire
La même œuvre que l'Anabase, avec d'autres mots. Note : le catalogue contient l'Anabase en plus d'une version — complète, les quatre premiers livres et une autre traduction anglaise —, en plus du volume en grec moderne. Il convient de dire quelle édition on cite, et mieux encore le livre et le chapitre.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.…