The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . d, withscourges, flogged every man, constantly urging them forward, sothat many of them falling into the sea, perished, and many morewere trampled alive under foot by one another ; and no regardwas paid to any that perished. The Greeks, knowing that deathawaited them at the hands of those who were eoine roundthe mountain, were desperate, and regardless of their own lives,displayed the utmost possible valor against the barbarians. Al-ready were most of their javelins broken, and they had begun todespatch the Persians with
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . d, withscourges, flogged every man, constantly urging them forward, sothat many of them falling into the sea, perished, and many morewere trampled alive under foot by one another ; and no regardwas paid to any that perished. The Greeks, knowing that deathawaited them at the hands of those who were eoine roundthe mountain, were desperate, and regardless of their own lives,displayed the utmost possible valor against the barbarians. Al-ready were most of their javelins broken, and they had begun todespatch the Persians with their swords. In this part of the strug-gle fell Leonidas, fighting valiantly, and with him other eminentSpartans, whose names, seeing they were deserving men, I haveascertained ; indeed I have ascertained the names of the wholethree hundred. On the side of the Persians, also, many othereminent men fell on this occasion, amongst them two sons ofDarius, Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, fighting for the body ofLeonidas ; and there was a violent struijcrle between the Persians. 290 HERODOTUS. and Lacedaemonians, until at last the Greeks rescued it by theirvalor, and four times repulsed the enemy. Thus the contest con-tinued until the Greeks heard that those with Ephialtes wereapproaching. Then they retreated to the narrow part of the way,and, passing beyond the wall, came and took up their position onthe rising ground, all in a compact body, with the exception of theThebans : the risinof o^round is at the entrance where the stonelion now stands to the memory of Leonidas. On this spot theydefended themselves, first with their swords, then with their handsand teeth, until the barbarians overwhelmed them with missiles infront, and from above, and on every side. Dieneces, a Spartan, is said to have been the bravest relate that before the engagement with the Medes, havingheard a Trachinian say, that when the barbarians let fly theirarrows, they would obscure the sun by the multitud
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