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Cunaxa

noun
1.
Battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.  Synonym: battle of Cunaxa.






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"Cunaxa" Quotes from Famous Books



... again over north Syria to the Euphrates, bound (though they only learned it at last by the waters of the Great River itself) for Babylon. But they never reached that city. Cyrus met death and his oriental soldiers accepted defeat at Cunaxa, some four days' march short of the goal. But the undefeated Greeks, refusing to surrender, and, few though they were, so greatly dreaded by the Persians that they were not directly molested, had to get back to their own land as best they might. How, robbed of their original leaders ...
— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth



Words linked to "Cunaxa" :   Babylonia, pitched battle, Chaldaea, battle of Cunaxa, Chaldea



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