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but filled full of barbaric arms and bloody spoils, and crowned round about with memorials and trophies of triumphs, she was not a gladdening or a reassuring sight, nor one for unwarlike and luxurious spectators. Indeed, as Epaminondas called the Boeotian plain a
‘dancing floor of Ares,’ and as Xenophon1 speaks of Ephesus as a
‘work-shop of war,’ so, it seems to me, one might at that time have called Rome, in the language of Pindar,
‘a precinct of much-warring Ares.’
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Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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