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The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis

Note 99 — Chapter IV

J. S. (John Selby) Watson translation

Ἐπὶ γάμῳ.] These words signify literally for or upon marriage. The true interpretation, says Krüger, is, doubtless, "in order that he might have her, or live with her, in wedlock," the marriage ceremony having been, it would seem, previously performed at Babylon.

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