Plain
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On the Estate of Dicaeogenes (Greek) · Anabasis (Greek)
Indeed except two small buildings outside the walls and sixty plethra of land in the Plain we have recovered nothing:
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Anabasis
Open ground over which the barbarian horsemen ride while killing Greeks.
After this some of the barbarian horsemen rode about over the plain and killed every Greek they met, whether slave or freeman.
On the fourth day they proceeded to descend into the plain.
and the army under Cheirisophus descended into the plain and proceeded to encamp in a village stored with abundant supplies.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
A region containing the sixty plethra of land that the plaintiffs report as among the very little they actually recovered from the estate.
Indeed except two small buildings outside the walls and sixty plethra of land in the Plain we have recovered nothing:
Cyropaedia
Open spaces used for military drill, sport, and formation practice.
On the following day the whole plain was full of men following their example;
then, next after them, the second rear-guard leader brings out the men of the second division, and the third and the fourth in like manner, in order that, he explained, they may also know how to withdraw, if ever it is necessary to retreat before the enemy.