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For plainly the Olympians have destined that I should see and do great things in Hellas, otherwise they would not have kept me back from Leonidas’s glory.” The Athenian’s voice rang confidently. None of the halting weakness remained that had made it falter once when Mardonius asked him, “Will your Hellenes fight?” He spoke as might one returned crowned with the victor’s laurel.
The city captured with such difficulty now became the victor’s favourite residence and the recipient of his bounty and enlightened rule, so that Salerno quickly rose to the rank of one of the most illustrious towns in Europe, supplanting even its magnificent neighbour Amalfi in popular esteem.
There is not a horse in Rome can touch Aurelius Victor’s gray South-wind!" replied the other. And in truth, Victor’s Gallic courser repaid his master’s vaunts; for he made, though he had seemed beat, so desperate a rally, that he rushed past the bay Arab almost at the goal, and won by a clear length amidst the roars of the glad spectators.
God has told you how to win; and just as surely as you follow his instructions and trust in him for results, he will cause you to wear the victor’s crown. Our cause is a righteous one. Have faith in that cause, and know that right must triumph.
Even as the magistrate took breath after reciting the victor’s noble ancestry, there was a cry, a parting of the crowd, and Glaucon the Alcmæonid leaped from the chariot as never on the sands at Corinth. The veil and the violet wreath fell from the head of Hermione when her face went up to her husband’s. The blossoms that had covered the athlete shook over her like a cloud as his face met hers.
The battle was fierce, but Abdurrahman’s boldness and courage prevailed, and the army of Yusuf in the end gave way, Cordova becoming the victor’s prize. The generous conqueror gave liberty and distinction to the defeated emir, and was repaid in two years by a rebellion in which he had an army of twenty thousand men to meet. Yusuf was again defeated, and now lost his life.
Only one man found it hard to join the mirth whole-heartedly. And this was the victor’s bosom friend,—Democrates. In Athens! Shall one mount the Acropolis or enter the market place? Worship in the temple of the Virgin Athena, or descend to the Agora and the roar of its getters and spenders? For Athens has two faces—toward the ideal, toward the commonplace. Who can regard both at once?
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