Of such a desert the traveller will occasionally come upon a forest of saksaul (Anabasis Ammodendron).
The punishment inflicted by him upon the Getae, however, induced the Triballi to sue for peace (Arrian, Anabasis, i.
A cushion plant (Anabasis aretioides) of the north-western Sahara, frequently shows dead leaves on the exposed side whilst the plant is in full vigour on the sheltered side.
The history of Cyrus and of the retreat of the Greeks is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis (where he tries to veil the actual participation of the Spartans).
I; Arrian, Anabasis, ii.
The most important of Arrian's original works is his Anabasis of Alexander, in seven books, containing the history of Alexander the Great from his accession to his death.
Other extant works of Arrian are: Indica, a description of India in the Ionic dialect, including the voyage of Nearchus, intended as a supplement to the Anabasis; Acies Contra Alanos, a fragment of importance for the knowledge of Roman military affairs; Periplus of the Euxine, an official account written (iii) for the emperor Hadrian; Tactica, attributed by some to Aelianus, who wrote in the reign of Trajan; Cynegeticus, a treatise on the chase, supplementing Xenophon's work on the same subject; the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, attributed to him, is by a later compiler.
Dubner (1846); Anabasis, C. Abicht (1889); with notes, C. W.
Roos, i., containing the Anabasis (Teubner series, 1907).
English translations: Anabasis, Rooke (1812); Anabasis and Indica, E.
We are comparatively well informed from Greek sources; for the earlier part of his reign from Ctesias and Xenophon (Anabasis), for the later times from Dinon of Ephesus, the historian of the Persians (from whom the account of Justin is derived), from Ephorus (whose account is quoted by Diodorus) and others.
See Arrian, Anabasis, vi.
See Arrian, Anabasis; Plutarch, Alexander; Diod.
The earliest mention of Sarapis is in the authentic death scene of Alexander, from the royal diaries (Arrian, Anabasis, vii.
In Xenophon's Anabasis it is mentioned as in the kingdom of the Thracian prince Seuthes.
Greek historian Arrian (Anabasis, ii.
Philopatris, 21; Arrian, Anabasis, ii.
15-19; Anabasis, i.
30; Plutarch, Phocion, 16, 17; Arrian, Anabasis, i.
To these 1nust be added the testimony of the other Greek historians (Thucydides, Ephorus, Theopompus, &c., with the histories of Alexander), and, before all~ that of Xenophon in the Anabasis and Hellenica.
Xenophon's notice of its abundance in Assyria (Anabasis, i.