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1955 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter M
   and Xenophon confounds (18.16)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter M
   of Plato, Xenophon, Nicostratus, and Philostratus, (18.16)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter A
   Arrian, as we shall see hereafter, had chosen Xenophon as his model in writing, and the Athenians called him the young Xenophon, either from the resemblance of his style to that of Xenophon, or more probably from the similarity of his connexion with Epictetus, to that which existed between Xenophon and Socrates. (17.89)

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6 from Renaissance Materials

1. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background part 1, chapter 3
   It is in some ways an imitation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, that is, it is a didactic romance which aims at giving in narrative form true principles of education, morals, and politics. (2.11)

2. Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie paragraph 16
   For Xenophon who did imitate so excellently as to giue vs (1.71)

3. Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie paragraph 24
   But euen in the most excellent determination of goodnesse, what Philosophers counsaile can so readely direct a Prince, as the feined Cirus in Xenophon, or a vertuous man in all fortunes: as Aeneas in Virgill, or a whole Common-wealth, as the Way of Sir Thomas Moores Eutopia. (1.62)

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13 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 1578
   translator; M.P. for Great Yarmouth; secretary to Duke of Norfolk, for complicity in whose plots he was confined in Tower, 1571; probably author of translations from Italian and Greek, including Xenophon's ‘Cyropædia. (9.01)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter S, entry 28825
   translator from the Greek; M.A. New College, Oxford, 1737; D.D., 1758; became dean of Chester, 1758; published translations of Longinus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, all now superseded. [liii. (4.36)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 5723
   of the East India Company's service; died near Bagdad on a journey to explore Xenophon's route in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. [x. 173] (3.36)

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7 from American Memory: California

1. Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. By Peter H. Burnett page ii
   ALEXANDER W. DONIPHAN,
   THE XENOPHON OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
   THE ABLE AND ELOQUENT ADVOCATE,
   THE MAN OF UNDOUBTED INTEGRITY,
   This Work is Dedicated,
   AS EVIDENCE OF THE ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM
   OF HIS OLD FRIEND,
   THE AUTHOR. (5.36)

2. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming page 4
   XENOPHON. (3.36)

3. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 19
   The idyllic picture of his life at Scillus, as presented by Xenophon, not wholly in the bustling world nor yet beyond it, is most charming. (3.03)

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8 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842 page 143
   Xenophon says of Jason, “All who have served under Jason have learned this lesson, that pleasure is the effect of toil; though as to sensual pleasures, I know no person in the world more temperate than Jason. (3.27)

2. Five years in Minnesota. Sketches of life in a western state page 4
   Socrates: Memoirs for English Readers from Xenophon's Memo rabilia. (3.19)

3. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 46
   I don't remember the exact amount of Greek: three books of the Iliad; the whole of Xenophon's Anabasis; Sophocles; grammar and writing Greek, with accents. (3.03)

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3 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. William Wirt, The letters of the British spy. By William wirt page 260
   The soldier has always admired the talents of Xenophon in conducting, and the scholar in describing, the ‘Retreat of the Ten Thousand;’ and the philosopher and statesman have alike been delighted with his charming work denominated the ‘Cyropædia. (3.83)

2. William Wirt, The letters of the British spy. By William wirt page 260
   XENOPHON. (3.83)

3. George Johnston, The Poets & poetry of Cecil county, Maryland. Collected and ed. By George Johnston page 21
   The story is a Grecian one,
   The author's name I cannot tell;
   Perhaps it was old Xenophon
   Or Aristotle, I can't dwell
   On trifles; perhaps Plutarch wrote the story;
   At any rate its years have made it hoary. (1.62)

1 from Tufts University History

1. Russell E. Miller, Light on the Hill, Volume I chapter 3, section 3
   Four books of Homer's Iliad and three books of Xenophon's Anabasis were basic in Greek. (2.80)