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Upon the Persians falling into Greece with a body of
five millions of men, the Spartans sent out Leonidas with
a party of three hundred soldiers to secure the Pass of
Thermopylae. As they were at dinner, the barbarians fell
in upon them; upon which, Leonidas bade them eat as if
they were to sup in another world. Leonidas charged
at the head of his men into the body of the barbarians;
and after many wounds received, got up to Xerxes himself, and took his crown from his head. He lost his life in
the attempt, and Xerxes causing him to be cut up when
he was dead, found his heart all hairy.—Aristides, in
the First Book of his Persian History.
In the Punic war the Romans sent out three hundred
men under the command of Fabius Maximus, where they
were all lost; and he himself, after he had received a mortal wound, assaulting Hannibal, took his diadem from his
head, and died in the action. According to Aristides
Milesius.
[p. 454]
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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