The title means "a march up ( from the coast)" into the Anagni (ä-nän'yē)

The Century Cyclopedia of Names · 1904 · p. 8
A town in the province of interior, and properly applies only to the first part, as far Rome, Italy, 36 miles southeast of Rome: the as the battle at Cunaxa. Cyrus was killed (Sept., 401). ancient Anagnia, capital of the Hernici. It The remaining and larger part of the work ought rather to be called catabasis , the march down to the sea. Soon has a cathedral and has often been the residence of the after the death of Cyrus, the Persian satrap Tisaphernes popes. Population, about 8,000. treacherously seized five of the Greek generals. The Anahuac (a-nä'wäk). [Nahuatl, signifying Greeks were now in terrible danger. That night Xenophon-who had not hitherto been either officer a private soldier, but simply an "unattached" volunteer awoke the surviving leaders, and in a midnight coun cil of war gave them heart, by his plain earnest eloquence, to take measures for the common safety. Next day, they began the retreat. Moving along the Tigris, past formed in a hollow square with the baggage in the center, the site of the ancient Nineveh and the modern Mo ul, they came into the country of the Carduchi, or Kurds, who, like modern rolled down stones them from the top of their mountain-pa es; then through Armenia and Georgia. At last one day in the fifth month - Feb., 400 B. C.- Xenophon, who was with the rear guard, heard a great shouting among the men who had reached the top of a hill in front. He thought they saw an enemy. He mounted his horse, and galloped forward with some cavalry. As they came nearer, they could make out the shout: it was " The sea ! the sea!" There, far off, was the silver gleam of the Euxine. After the long, intense strain of toil and danger, the men burst into tears: like true Greek children of the sea they knew now that they were in sight of home. Two days' march brought them to the coast at Trapezus, a Greek city, the modern Trebizond; there they sacrificed to the gods, especially to Zeus the Pre server and Heracles the Guide. Jebb , Greek Lit., p. 110. Anabasis of Alexander the Great. An im- portant historical work by Arrian, in seven books, all of which, with the exception of a few pages, has survived. It begins with the acces- sion of Alexander, and describes his campaigns and victories. Anacaona (ä-nä-kä'ō-nä). [A Haitian name meaning 'golden flower.'] An Indian prince , sister of Behechio and wife of Caonabo, ca- ciques of Haiti when it was discovered by Co- lumbus (1492). After the capture and death of Caonabo she counseled submi ion to the Spaniards, and herself received Bartholomew Columbus with great hospitality (1498). She succeeded her brother Behechio as ruler of his tribe, and friendly relations with the whites continued until 1503: in that year she entertained Ovando and his within the water.'] A name originally used to designate the low water-bordered coastal lands ( tierras calientes ) of Mexico, and now generally applied to the greater part of the central table-land, or to that portion of it, in the region of the City of Mexico, which holds the valley lakes (Texcoco, Chalco, etc.), and extends eastward to the mountain wall of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl. be name fort acc inn at i Anahuac has been stated to be the name time of the Spanish conquest. This is, however, an error, as there was no empire, but only a confederacy of warlike tribes. The name has, therefore, no political, hardly even a definite geographical, significance. Anaides (a-na'dēz). [Gr. ἀναιδής , shamele .] In Ben Jonson's “Cynthia's Revels," a fashionable ruffler and impudent ruffian. Thomas Dekker imagined that in this character he was caricatured. Others, however, think Marston was intended. An a it is (a-nī'tis), Anait (a-nīt'). A Syrian godde whose worship was introduced into Greek mythology. She was variously identified with Artemis, Aphrodite, Cybele, etc. In Egyptian mythology she appeared under the name Anta , Antha . Anak (a'nak). [Heb., 'long-necked,' i. e. 'giant.'] In the Old Testament, the progenitor of a tribe or race of giants, the Anakim (which see), or a collective name for this tribe itself. Anakim (an'a-kim). In the Old Testament, southern Palestine. the sons of Anak, a race of giants dwelling in People saw survivors of the ancient indigenous populations, anterior to the Can a a nites (Emim, Zomzommin, Anakim), in individuals of lofty stature whom they be lieved were to be found in certain particular places. But popular imagination revels in giants; it willingly creates them. These Anakim were surrounded by legends: they sometimes called them ref aïm (the dead, the giants, the phantoms, the heroes); a plain to the southwest of Jeru Anakim salem bore their name, and they were confounded with the Titanic races buried under the sea.
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