Xenophon

(zěn'o-fon,) a Greek historian and military commander, was a disciple of So crates, who at the • battle of Delium carried him wounded from the field, Hewas one of the Grecian mercenaries in the expedition of Cyrus, in 401 B. c.; and after the defeat at Cunaxa, and the murder of the Greek generals, he conducted the ever memorable Retreat of the 10,000. Although a native of Athens, he fought against her underAgesilaus, and at last died at Corinth. His history of the expedition of Cyrus is the best known of his works; his Life of Cyrus the Great is principally fictitious; and his Memoirs of So crates are of great value in completing the portraiture of that philosopher by Plato. Xebec,(ze'běk.) (Naut.) A small three-masted ve el employed in the Mediterranean, carrying lateen sails Fig. 696.-XEBEC. when close-hauled, and of great breadth of beam so as to bear a heavy pre of sail without danger of capsizing. [s. 971]