Definitions for Cunaxa

Cunaxa Cu·nax·a

Spelling: [kyoo-nak-suh]
IPA: /kyuˈnæk sə/

Cunaxa is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Cunaxa (aacnux).

Definitions for Cunaxa

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  1. an ancient town in Babylonia, near the Euphrates: famous battle between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II in 401 b.c.

Examples for Cunaxa

Here it was all vivid and real before my eyes, with the scene of the great battle of Cunaxa only a few miles from Museyib.

This is generally supposed to have been Cunaxa, where, according to Plutarch, the battle was fought.

Ainsworth, p. 244, identifies Cunaxa with Imséy'ab, a place 36 miles north of Babylon.

Cyrus met death and his oriental soldiers accepted defeat at Cunaxa, some four days' march short of the goal.

This was after the battle of Cunaxa, where the younger Cyrus was defeated and slain.

The battle of Cunaxa, in which Cyrus fell, was fought on Sept. 3d.

Artaxerxes is on horseback in the battle of Cunaxa; Plutarch, "Artax."

His generalship failed signally at the battle of Cunaxa, for the loss of which he is far more to be blamed than Clearchus.

At Cunaxa, however, the Persian did get behind the Greek camp.

Cyrus the younger had two Greek women with him when he fell at Cunaxa, and one of them was a Milesian.

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