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“on the third or fourth day got on their legs again like convalescents after a severe course of medical treatment”

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The Persian Expedition, Book IV, Chapter VIII, trans. H. G. Dakyns (1890s)

The end of the honey episode: none died, and they recovered at about the hour they had eaten.

Citation: "on the third or fourth day got on their legs again like convalescents after a severe course of medical treatment" — Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, Book IV, Chapter VIII, trans. H. G. Dakyns (1890s). (id the-persian-expedition-q10)

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