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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...ned money, and stamped it with the image of an ox, either in memory of the Marathonian bull, or of T au- rus, whom he vanquished, or else to put his p... ...d a herd of oxen which belonged to Theseus, and was driving them away from Marathon, and, when news was brought that Theseus pursued him in arms, he d... ...hat which is now called Academia was then named Echedemia, and the village Marathon had its name from the other, who, to fulfill some oracle, volun- t... ...he- nians to honor Theseus as a demigod, in the battle which was fought at Marathon against the Medes, many of the sol- diers believed they saw an app... ...84 V olume One actions, that, though he was still young when the battle of Marathon was fought against the Persians, upon the skillful conduct of the ... ...in, on the sixth of Boedromion, the Persians were worsted by the Greeks at Marathon; on the third, at Plataea, as also at Mycale; on the twenty-fifth,... ...ibes, and reached it the same day. Aristides, being left with his tribe at Marathon to guard the plunder and prisoners, did not disappoint the opinion... ...after Phaenippus, during whose term of office they obtained the victory of Marathon, Aristides is registered. Of all his virtues, the common people we... ... with no better arms or stouter hearts than those who fought the battle of Marathon; but had the same bows and arrows, and the same embroidered coats ...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... – most, I think; and Mr. Schram has a great notion of the English taste. In this wild spot, I did not feel the sacredness of an- cient cultivation. I...

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The Odyssey

By: Homer

...country .” Then Minerva left Scheria and went away over the sea. She went to Marathon and to the spacious streets of Athens, where she entered the abo...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...What a fuss there would be when some well- trained boy, panting as if from Marathon, appeared with an evening paper! “I say, you chaps, Middlesex all ...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...ters wing’d her way; Forsaking Scheria’s ever pleasing shore, The winds to Marathon the virgin bore: Thence, where proud Athens rears her towery head,...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...with Anaximenes. This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus, the brother of Demetrius the Phalerian, in Aegina,... ...ls, wrote to the people of Athens that this victory was “sister to that at Marathon.” And so may this action be very safely termed sister to those of ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e most accurate of travellers, is a soldier; and in reviewing the field of Marathon, of Plataa, and others deriv- ing their interest from later wars, ... ...ut one will be sufficient. The Athenian painter who recorded the battle of Marathon in fresco upon the walls of a portico, was fined for representing ... ...led. [See the Acad. des Inscriptions, about the year 1725.] At the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had ex... ...present. In the other direction, the logic of the Greek artist who painted Marathon is more cogent. The Persians were numerically superior, though dou... ...ever, on the whole, it seems undeniable that even at Platsea, much more at Marathon, the Persians had the advantage in numbers. If, besides this numer...

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An Essay on Comedy

By: George Meredith

...ter the catastrophe, the poet, who had ever been gazing back at the men of Marathon and Salamis, must have felt that he had foreseen it; and that he w...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...f a mo’,” said Uncle Jim, taking his arm. “We ain’t do- ing a (sanguinary) Marathon. It ain’t a (decorated) cinder track. I want a word with you, mist...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ommanded a body of troops at the battle of 22 Chronicles of the Canongate Marathon. Sophocles and Euripides were men of rank in Athens when Athens wa...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...e’s tempestuous dawn Freedom’s splendour burst and shone:— Thermopylae and Marathon Caught like mountains beacon-lighted, ...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...her Nanette!” cried Friquet, suffocating; “ah! Mother Nanette!” He could say no more; but though he hadn’t strength to speak he had enough for action....

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Menexenus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of... ...to tell the king that no one had escaped them. And from Eretria they went to Marathon with a like intention, expecting to bind the Athenians in the sa... ...now what manner of men they were who received the onset of the barbarians at Marathon, and chastened the pride of the whole of Asia, and by the victor... ...wn safety in the battles which en- sued: they became disciples of the men of Marathon. To them, therefore, I assign in my speech the first place, and ... ...ch appears to me to 13 Menexenus be the noblest, and which followed that of Marathon and came nearest to it; for the men of Marathon only showed the ... ...umbers, whether of ships or men, to cease among them. And so the soldiers of Marathon and the sailors of Salamis became the schoolmasters of Hellas; t... ...o give the assistance of the state, for she could not forget the trophies of Marathon and Salamis and Plataea; but she allowed exiles and volunteers t...

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The Children of the Night

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

...re I go, — Melchizedek, Ucalegon. Villanelle of Change Since Persia fell at Marathon, The yellow years have gathered fast: Long centuries have come ... ...ey say) the place will don A phantom fury of the past, Since Persia fell at Marathon; And as of old, when Helicon T rembled and swayed with rapture ... ...when night comes on, Shakes to a ghostly battle blast, Since Persia fell at Marathon. But into soundless Acheron The glory of Greek shame was cast: ... ...as have all shone, The first has fallen to the last: — Since Persia fell at Marathon, Long centuries have come and gone. 16 E.A. Robinson John Evere... ... always ask 136 She’d look upon us, if she could, 143 Since Persia fell at Marathon, 15 Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive 102 Slowly I smoke an...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

...st of our own history. Among battles, “every schoolboy” knows the story of Marathon or Salamis, while it would be hard indeed to find one who did more...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing the...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...troops to be signally defeated upon the coast of Attica; but the losses at Marathon had but stimulated the Persian lust of conquest, and the new King ...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...that their task-work was an idle labour. Dr. Shrapnel assisted in fighting Marathon and Salamis over again cor- dially—to shield Great Britain from th...

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The Gorgias

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...les, adding the penalty of exile; and they voted that Miltiades, the hero of Marathon, should be thrown into the pit of death, and he was only saved b...

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The Republic

By: Plato

...ith the struggle for Hellenic independence, singing a hymn of triumph over Marathon and Salamis, perhaps making the reflection of Herodotus where he c...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...d Arcadia and Tempe. Greece, who am I that should remember thee, Thy Marathon and thy Thermopylae? Is my life vulgar, my fate mean, Which ...

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