| 单词 | katabasis |
| 释义 | katabasis /keuh tab"euh sis/, n. , pl. katabases /-seez'/. 1. a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa. 2. a retreat, esp. a military retreat. Cf. anabasis. [1830-40; < Gk katábasis a going down, descent, equiv. to kataba- (s. of katabaínein to go down) + -sis -SIS. See KATA-, BASIS] |
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