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Quote: 
Thalatta! Thalatta!
Text: 
In Xenophon's Anabasis,'Thalatta! Thalatta!' (The sea! The sea!') is the cry of ecstasy uttered by the 10,000 Greeks upon summitting Mount Theches and seeing the Black Sea. The army had just come from Cyrus the Young's failed march on the Persian Empire.