/euh nab"euh sis/ , n. , pl. anabases /-seez'/ .
1. a march from the coast into the interior, as that of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II, described by Xenophon in his historical work Anabasis (379-371 B.C.).
2. Literary. any military expedition or advance. Cf. katabasis .
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