アナバシス (ed. 3)
- 言語:
- 英語
- 翻訳:
- Frances Younghusband
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
- 著者性:
- Adaptation by C. Witt / Frances Younghusband
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- スキャンのノイズは検出されていません (全文に対する自動測定で、人の目では確認していません)
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この作品を引用
- APAクセノフォン. (n.d.). The retreat of the ten thousand [アナバシス (ed. 3)] (Frances Younghusband, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand
- MLAクセノフォン. The retreat of the ten thousand [アナバシス (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
- Chicagoクセノフォン. The retreat of the ten thousand [アナバシス (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
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何についての本か
ペルシアの腹からの一万人の撤退。『アナバシス』のもう一つの英訳。
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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.…