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of the Parthians. That General, who poflefled great military 

 talents, and had at that time the command of an army of a 

 hundred and thirteen thoufand men, of whom fixty thoiifand 

 were actually Roman citizens, obliged, as Xenophon was, to 

 make a retreat in the face of the Parthians, and twenty times on 

 the point of failing in his attempt, frequently exclaimed, with a 

 figh ! the ten thoufand! (See Plutarch.) 



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