Yet the royal authors of the Geoponics were more seriously employed in expounding the precepts of the destroying art, which had been taught since the days of Xenophon, as the art of heroes and kings.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

( De Defectu Oraculorum , xviii); also my Arthurian Legend , pp.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

This universal necessity of presents and bribes may be seen illustrated in the dealings of Xenophon and the Cyreian army with the Thracian prince Seuthes, described in the Anabasis, vii, chapters 1 and 2.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

On the first supposition we have two possible cases, (1) the predicate may state precisely what the subject defined is ; then y is the Definition of x , as when I say that "men are mortal animals, capable of discourse."
— from Aristotle by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Taylor

The ancient bas-reliefs at Persepolis, and the neighborhood of Babylon, second only in their antiquity and interest to those of Egypt, furnish us with examples of the boots and shoes of the Persian kings, their nobles, and attendants; and they were executed, as appears from historical, as well as internal evidence, in the days of Xerxes and Darius.
— from The Book of the Feet: A History of Boots and Shoes by Joseph Sparkes Hall

In the sudden darkness the Gauls fell upon each other, as the Persians had done in the days of Xerxes, and fought so desperately that many were killed.
— from The Story of the Greeks by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Xenophon had enlightened the Greeks as to the inefficiency of the Persian armies, if they needed any additional instruction after the defeat of Xerxes and his generals.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

But if X be a proper name, having no connotation, Y must always be an accident; since there can then be no definition of X, and therefore neither species, genus, difference, nor proprium.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

As for Alexander’s design to join the island Tyre to the continent by means of a mole, they cannot have had the slightest suspicion of it, since no work of the kind had ever previously been accomplished, or even attempted; for the demonstration of Xerxes against Salamis was not seriously intended.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

Chapter IV (page 33, 34 - "doxa" - delta, omicron, xi, alpha; "Peri" - PI, epsilon, rho, iota; "Phueos" - PHI, upsilon, sigma, epsilon, omega, final sigma.
— from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall

Gates of Kilikia and Syria. — Desertion of Xenias and Pasion — prudence of Cyrus. —
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote