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Persians

the people of Persia, the great empire of western Asia; under Darius they invaded Greece and were beaten back at Marathon (490), 1.61.

under Xerxes were overwhelmingly defeated at Salamis (480), 1.61; 3.48, 49.

and at Plataea (479), 1.61.

M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.

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