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On the Cavalry Commander

Xenophon, c. 430–354 BCE — in Greek.

The words most alive here

If a word rides through a thousand years mostly in war-poems and cavalry manuals, is the horse it names ever quite an ordinary animal?

By how often they stand in this work, the commonest particles set aside. Each opens onto its own word.

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