The tale of the great Persian war, from the histories of Herodotus by G.W. Cox |
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¹ Herodotus Ægina Æginetans Amompharetus answered Argos Aristagoras Aristeides army Artabazus Artaphernes Artemisium asked Athenians Athens Attica barbarians battle believe Boeotia charge conquered counsel Croesus Cyrus Darius Delphi Delphian Demaratus Demokedes donius enemy epical Eurybiades evil fear fight fled fleet fought G. C. Lewis gave give glory gods Greeks Grote ground Hellas Hellenic Hellespont herald Histiæus historian History of Greece horsemen hundred Ibid Ionians Isthmus king knew Lacedæmonians land leaders legend Leonidas less Lydian Marathon Mardonius marvellous Medes messengers Miltiades mind Mycalê myriads mythical narrative nians oracles passed Pausanias Peloponnesus Persians Phokians Platææ Rawlinson's Herodotus ready sailed Salamis Sardes scarcely Scythians sent ships slain slew Spartans speak story Susa tale Tegea tell temple Thebans thee Themistocles Thessaly things thou hast thought thousand Thucydides tion told took truth victory VIII wall words Xerxes Zeus
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Page 129 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
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Page 269 - BC, we can do so only under the supposition that during the early periods of history the growth of the human mind was more luxuriant than in later times, and that the layers of thought were formed less slowly in the primary than in the tertiary ages of the world.
Page 50 - Philippides deliver the message committed to him. And the Spartans wished to help the Athenians, but were unable to give them any present aid, as they did not like to break their established law. It was the ninth day of the month, and they could not march out of Sparta on the ninth, when the moon had not reached the full. So they waited for the full of the moon.
Page 34 - The sun, the soil, but not the slave, the same ; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord, Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame The Battle-field, where Persia's victim horde First bowed beneath the brunt of Hellas...
Page 64 - For let me not be thought the child of Darius, the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames, the son of Ariaramnes, the son of Teispes, the son of Cyrus, the son of Cambyses, the son of Teispes, the son of Achaemenes, if I take not vengeance on the Athenians.
Page 374 - His behavior in the expedition of Paros was as reprehensible as at Marathon it had been meritorious, and the one succeeded immediately after the other : what else could ensue except an entire revolution in the Athenian feelings ? He had employed his prodigious ascendency over their minds to induce them to follow him without knowing whither, in the confidence of an unknown booty...
Page 269 - Brahman is bound to know, but the fiercest imprecations are uttered against all who would presume to acquire their knowledge from written sources. In the Mahabharata we read, 'Those who sell the Vedas, and even those who write them, those also who defile them, they shall go to hell.
Page 54 - Sardeis ; but when he heard the tale of the battle of Marathon, he was much more wroth and desired yet more eagerly to march against Hellas. Straightway he sent heralds to all the cities, and bade them make ready an army, and to furnish much more than they had done before, both ships and horses and corn ; and while the heralds were going round, all Asia was shaken for three years ; but in the fourth year the Egyptians, who had been made slaves by Kambyses, rebelled...
Page 390 - ... enmity from jobbers, whom he exposed, and even some jealousy from persons who heard it proclaimed with offensive ostentation. We are told that a rustic and unlettered citizen gave his ostracizing vote and expressed his dislike against Aristides on the simple ground that he was tired of hearing him always called the Just.