tyraetus

Updated: May 19, 2025

He remained in the field until the army went into winter-quarters after the battles of Trenton and Princeton. It was not as a combatant that Paine did the States good service. He played the part of Tyraetus in prose, an adaptation of the old Greek lyrist to the eighteenth century and to British America, and cheered the soldiers, not with songs, but with essays, continuations of "Common Sense."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859