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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 41 | 41 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 15 | 15 | Browse | Search |
| M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Polybius, Histories | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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For they say that at Plataea, when the Spartans came up to the men with wicker shields, they were not willing to stand and fight against these, but fled; when, however, the Persian ranks weree broken, the Spartans kept turning round and fighting like cavalry, and so won that great battle.In the final struggle at Plataea (479 B.C.) the Spartans at first hesitated before the barrier of wicker shields opposed to them by the Persians; but by a supreme effort they broke through and defeated the Persians by turning on them in man-to-man combat. Cf. Herod. ix. 61-2.LachesWhat you say is true.SocratesAnd so this is what I meant just now by sayng that I was to blame for your wrong answer, by putting my question wrongly.