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So confident had the Persians been of victory, that they had brought a mass of white marble with which to erect a monument on the plain of Marathon. This Phidias, the great Greek sculptor, carved into a gigantic figure of Nemesis, to represent Divine vengeance. The proud and arrogant Persians were not used to defeat.
If we do not bring on a battle presently, some factious intrigue will disunite the Athenians, and the city will be betrayed to the Medes. The 116th section is to my mind clear proof that Herodotus had personally conversed with Epizelus, one of the veterans of Marathon.
The Spartan, who had risen when Pausanias addressed him, drew his chief a little aside from the rest. "Pausanias," said he, "the hard Naxian stone best tames and tempers the fine steel; but the steel may break if the workman be not skilful. These Athenians are grown insolent since Marathon, and their soft kindred of Asia have relighted the fires they took of old from the Cecropian Prytaneum.
It was plainly noticeable how that vast crowd began to stir, and show signs of increased interest when the numerous trim runners entered for the big Marathon started to gather for the preliminary stage of the race. Each of the many contestants had a large number fastened upon both the front and back of his in upper garment.
The hero-cult included many men of note recently deceased, like Brasidas and those that fell at Marathon. +374+. The cults just mentioned dealt with the departed as friendly souls, the protectors of the family, the clan, or the state. The state cult of the dead was elaborate and solemn.
This was about twenty-eight years before the battle of Marathon, and it is with his arrival in the Chersonese that our first knowledge of the career and character of Miltiades commences. We find, in the first act recorded of him, proof of the same resolute and unscrupulous spirit that marked his mature age.
How slowly the seconds passed! Hugh was trying to count, so as to judge when the Marathon runner would be likely to have covered that half-mile, and be at the spot where he, Hugh, had left the road. When, finally, the time had expired he again spoke to Claude. "Don't be startled, Claude, because I'm going to shout out. Hang tight, now!"
Ten years after Marathon the Spartans won everlasting glory by their heroic stand at the Pass of Thermopylae three hundred Greeks against the mighty army of the Persian king Xerxes.
I had a splendid constitution, a stomach that would digest scrap-iron, and I was still running my marathon in full vigour when Scotty began to fail and fade. His talk grew incoherent. He groped for words and could not find them, while the ones he found his lips were unable to form. His poisoned consciousness was leaving him.
On both sides the strongest efforts were made on the one side to relieve the castle, on the other to strengthen its besiegers. The opposing forces met in battle at Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, an action which has never been better described than in this characteristic recital by Professor Lang. Bannockburn, like the relief of Orleans, or Marathon, was one of the decisive battles of the world.
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