Meaning of anabasis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
   historical
2. The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.”

“‘I have⟳ a feeling that if we follow⟳ a scent of spring⟳ on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come⟳ to a south without snow⟳ more quickly than we think⟳. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.”

“The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.”

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