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Datis, the Persian satrap, came to Marathon, a
plain of Attica, with an army of three hundred
thousand, encamped there, and declared war on the
inhabitants of the country. The Athenians, however,
contemning the barbarian host, sent out nine thousand
men, and appointed as generals Cynegeirus, Polyzelus, Callimachus, and Miltiades. When this force
had engaged the enemy, Polyzelus, having seen a
supernatural vision, lost his sight, and became blind.
Callimachus was pierced with so many spears that,
dead though he was, he stood upright1; and Cynegeirus, seizing hold of a Persian ship that was putting
out to sea, had his hand chopped off.2
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Hasdrubal the king seized Sicily and declared war
on the Romans. Metellus was elected general by the
Senate and was victor in the battle in which Lucius
Glauco, a patrician, seizing hold of Hasdrubal's ship,
lost both his hands. This Aristeides the Milesian
relates iii the first book of his Sicilian History ; from
him Dionysius Siculus learned the facts.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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