Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman
Author:Richard Stoneman
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Tags: Biography, History
ISBN: 9780300180077
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-08-01T23:21:24.646000+00:00
CHAPTER SIX
Invasion (II): The Wooden Walls
The daring Greeks deride the martial shew
And heap their vallies with the gaudy foe.
Th’insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains,
A single skiff to speed his flight remains;
Th’incumber’d oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast
Through purple billows and a floating host.
Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 234–40
Think on Salamis;
In that deep sea the Persian honour sunk.
’Twas there our dazzling Sun, great Xerxes’ glory,
Set for ever.
Colley Cibber, Xerxes, I
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