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Quotation from The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
“sitting down and keeping quiet helped the blood to freeze and the toes to mortify”
The Persian Expedition, Book V, Chapter VIII, trans. H. G. Dakyns (1890s)
Xenophon explains why he forced exhausted men to keep moving in the snow, drawing on his own experience of trying to rise after resting.
Citation: "sitting down and keeping quiet helped the blood to freeze and the toes to mortify" — Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, Book V, Chapter VIII, trans. H. G. Dakyns (1890s). (id the-persian-expedition-q12)
