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Definition of: anabasis
(ə·nab′ə·sis) noun plural ·ses (-sēz)
A military advance or incursion, as that of Cyrus the Younger, with 10,000 Greek auxiliaries, against Artaxerxes II in 401 B.C., described in Xenophon's Anabasis. [<Gk. <anabainein go up <ana- up + bainein go]
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