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Upon a time when the Thracians were engaged in
a war against the Athenians, the oracle promised them
victory if they would but save the life of Codrus. Codrus
upon this puts himself in a coarse disguise, and away he
goes into the enemies' camp with a scythe in his hand,
where he killed one, and another killed him, so that the
Athenians got the better on't.—Socrates, in his Second
Book of his Thracian History.
Publius Decius, a Roman, at a time when they were in
war with the Albans, had a dream that his death would
bring a great advantage to the Romans; upon which consideration he charged into the middle of his enemies, where
he killed many, and was slain himself: his son Decius did
the like in the Gallic war, for the conservation of the
Roman State.—Aristides Milesius is my author.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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