katabasis

• He was king of Persia and led an expedition into Ethiopia, which ended disastrously for him 2 23. anabasis. The word itself means "a march up" into the interior.--katabasis (l. —  De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
• Julian -- or (as more disastrous than any of them, and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodus, authorized by an oracle venerated throughout many nations of Asia, an Exodus, therefore, in so far resembling the great Scriptural Exodus of the —  Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1
• The story of this anabasis has been told in hundreds and thousands of fragments -- the anabasis that has had no katabasis -- the literal going up of —  The French in the Heart of America
• Schiller. 2dly, That of a great military expedition offering the same romantic features of vast distances to be traversed, vast reverses to be sustained, untried routes, 20 enemies obscurely ascertained, and hardships too vaguely prefigured, which mark the Egyptian expedition of Cambyses -- the anabasis of the younger Cyrus, and the subsequent retreat of the ten thousand, the Parthian expeditions of the Romans, especially those of Crassus 25 and Julian -- or (as more disastrous than any of them, and, in point of space, as well as in amount of forces, more extensive) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of —  De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
• The word itself means "a march up" into the interior. -- katabasis (l. 28) means "a march down," -- in this case the retreat of the Greeks. —  De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars

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