The Greek Way by Hamilton Edith

Author:Hamilton, Edith [Hamilton, Edith]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

A king sat on the rocky brow

That looks on sea-born Salamis,

And ships by thousands lay below,

And men by nations—all were his.

He counted them at break of day,

And when the sun set where were they?

The victorious Greeks distrusted the evidence of their own eyes. They had gone into battle almost despairing. “The night before,” Herodotus says, “fear and dismay had taken possession of them.” Now they could not believe the awful menace was ended. They held themselves ready for another attack. But the Persian ships put out to sea; they were gone never to return. Liberty had again proved her power. Just before the attack the Greek leaders told their men, “When we join battle with the Persians, before all else remember freedom.” Æschylus, who was there, says they advanced upon the foe with a shout of:

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