Saturday, September 19, 2026
An Omission
Xenophon, Anabasis, with an English Translation by Carleton L. Brownson (1922; rpt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992 = Loeb Classical Library, 90), pp. 38-39 (1.4.6):
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ἐντεῦθεν ἐξελαύνει διὰ Συρίας σταθμὸν ἕνα παρασάγγας πέντε εἰς Μυρίανδον, πόλιν οἰκουμένην ὑπὸ Φοινίκων ἐπὶ τῇ θαλάττῃ...Brownson didn't translate διὰ Συρίας. Neither did Robin Waterfield:
Thence Cyrus marched one stage, five parasangs, to Myriandus, a city on the sea coast, inhabited by Phoenicians...
The next leg was a one-day march of five parasangs that brought him to Myriandus, a coastal city inhabited by Phoenicians.Wayne Ambler's translation is correct:
From here Cyrus marched through Syria one stage, five parasangs, to Myriandus, a city inhabited by Phoenicians and on the sea.I don't see any relevant variants in Wilhelm Gemoll's editio maior.
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